This is a digital copy of a book that was preserved for generations on library shelves before it was carefully scanned by Google as part of a project
to make the world's books discoverable online.
It has survived long enough for the copyright to expire and the book to enter the public domain. A public domain book is one that was never subject
to copyright or whose legal copyright term has expired. Whether a book is in the public domain may vary country to country. Public domain books
are our gateways to the past, representing a wealth of history, culture and knowledge that's often difficult to discover.
Marks, notations and other marginalia present in the original volume will appear in this file - a reminder of this book's long journey from the
publisher to a library and finally to you.
Usage guidelines
Google is proud to partner with libraries to digitize public domain materials and make them widely accessible. Public domain books belong to the
public and we are merely their custodians. Nevertheless, this work is expensive, so in order to keep providing this resource, we have taken steps to
prevent abuse by commercial parties, including placing technical restrictions on automated querying.
We also ask that you:
+ Make non-commercial use of the files We designed Google Book Search for use by individuals, and we request that you use these files for
personal, non-commercial purposes.
+ Refrain from automated querying Do not send automated queries of any sort to Google's system: If you are conducting research on machine
translation, optical character recognition or other areas where access to a large amount of text is helpful, please contact us. We encourage the
use of public domain materials for these purposes and may be able to help.
+ Maintain attribution The Google "watermark" you see on each file is essential for informing people about this project and helping them find
additional materials through Google Book Search. Please do not remove it.
+ Keep it legal Whatever your use, remember that you are responsible for ensuring that what you are doing is legal. Do not assume that just
because we believe a book is in the public domain for users in the United States, that the work is also in the public domain for users in other
countries. Whether a book is still in copyright varies from country to country, and we can't offer guidance on whether any specific use of
any specific book is allowed. Please do not assume that a book's appearance in Google Book Search means it can be used in any manner
anywhere in the world. Copyright infringement liability can be quite severe.
About Google Book Search
Google's mission is to organize the world's information and to make it universally accessible and useful. Google Book Search helps readers
discover the world's books while helping authors and publishers reach new audiences. You can search through the full text of this book on the web
at |http : //books . google . com/
IX'^/fnSr.i^'
^ortmrli CoOege ISastdxjf
BRIGHT LEGACY
One half th« Iscoae tnm tkit L«gaqr« vUch wat r^
cehred ia itto aader th« will of
JONATHAN BROWN BRIGHT
of Walthaa, Mmichnctti. !• to b« esp«a4adl for books
for th« CoU^ Ubrarj. Tke otker half of th« lacoao
!• dcTotod to tcholanhlM ia Harvard Ualvertltj for th«
beaeit of dotcoadaats or
HBNRT BRIGHT, JR.,
who died at Watertowa, MMtMhatctti^ ta i6t6. la th«
abaeace of todi dotcoadaats, other penoat are elifible
totheecholarthipe. The will reqmiree that this aaaoaac^
Bieat thall be auide ia everj book added to the Library
aader its proHdoae.
c
U.
Digitized by
Google
Digitized by
Google
Digitized by
Google
Digitized by
Google
Copyright 1922
By
ZELLA ARMSTRONa
Digitized by
Google
N T A B
L
E
S U T H E
R
N
F A M I L I
E
S
VOLUME II
COMPILED BY
ZELLA ARMSTRONG
Member of the Tennessee Historical Commission
PRICE $4.00
PUBUSHEX) BY
THE LOOKOUT PUBLISHING CO.
CHATTANOCX^A. TENN.
Digitized by VjOOQI
DEC 15 1942-
\4
Digitized by
Google
FOREWORD
In compiling this book of valuable family records I
am indebted to scores of people. In many cases some of
them contributed only a few names and dates but all of
great value, while others gave time to the preparation of
extended family data which could not otherwise have
been obtained.
Among those to whom credit must be given for valuable
assistance are:
Robert A. J. Armstrong, S. G. Heiskall, Richard Lee
Kelton who prepared the Kelton data and a portion of the
Wear article; John A. Kelly, Mrs. Anna Belle Hardwick
Brown, who prepared the Hardwick and Montgomery data;
Mrs. J. P. Stephenson, who prepared the Donelson data;
Mrs. G. R. Greer, who prepared Ihe Rhea record ; Mrs. Sally
Strother Hollingsworth who prepared the Hollingsworth
line; Mrs. Louise Wilson Reynolds who wrote the Bean,
Magill, Garter and Williams, and a part of the Wear; Mrs.
Alice Vance Robinson who wrote the Vance record; Mrs.
Bernis Brien who prepared the Brien and Holliday data;
Mrs. Gharles Polk McGuire who prepared the Shelby story;
Miss Lucy M. Ball, Mrs. G. L. Hardwick, Mrs. J. E. Johnston;
the late Oscar K. Lyle, the late James A. Galdwell, Mrs.
Robert Houston Stickley, Mrs. Metta Andrews Green. Mrs.
A. S. Bowen, G. K. Hill, Mrs. Joseph C. Vance and others.
Hundreds of histories, court records, Bibles and family
documents have also been consulted.
ZELLA ARMSTRONG
Digitized by
Google
CONTENTS
BEAN
BOONE
BORDKN
BRYAN
CARTER
DAVIS
DONALDSON
HARDWICK
HAYWOOD
HOLLIDAY
HOLUNOSWORTH
HOUSTON
JOHNSTON
KBLTON
MAGILL
RHEA
MONTGOMERY
SHELBY
VANCE
WEAR
WILLIAMS
Digitized by
Google
Notable Southern Families
BEAN
Let US visualize the present Tennessee as it was about
the year 1770— not an unknown wilderness where any man
might go and build his cabin if not intimidated by the In-
dians, but as an area jealously watched by both France and
England. Where the boats of the Frenchman du Bois glided
side by side wilh the Indian canoe, and French adventurers
were made welcome in the wigwam; where, on the other
hand, traders and explorers from Virginia, Pennsylvania
and the Carolinas traversed valley and mountain trails io
the Indian towns unmolested, and carried away rich peltries
on their pack-horses.
Before Fort Loudon was enacted in East Tennessee,
French traders had built a fort near the present site of
Najshville, and Frenchmen were operating silver miivs
upon the tributaries of the Cumberland.
Dating possibly as far back as the erection of Fort Lou-
den and Long Island, Watauga had been the mecca for
traders. IVo, if not more c^abins were erected ther<* for
their convenience before the year 1769, the date of its first
settlement.
These traders played no little part in the early events on
the Watauga. Through friendship for the people, some
lost goodwill of the Indieuis and became victims of their
animosity.
While it is possible that an interesting, if not bulky,
volume might be written of the days before Tennessee is
generally supposed to have attained the dignity of swad-
dling clothes, our history begins wijh the coming of one
William Bean to Boone's Greek, in 1769.
All hiBtorians speak of William Bean as an "intrepid
nwin," and it is doubtful if any other word could so well
describe him.
Other men had gone into the ;i?i^ildernes8 alone or in
companies, but William Bean came encumbered with wife
and children.
Digitized by
Google
NOTABLK SOUTHERN FAMILIES
A few yeai's ago the writer came into possession of the
bold autograt)>ll;ol'. Russell Bean, and looking at it felt a de-
sire to know more about the Bean family in general, and
UHire particularly concerning the parents of, so far as is
known, the first baby born in Tennessee of English parent-
age.
The result of the research was a little disappointing in
that so many of the traditions were contradictory or un-
authentic, but there were compensations. And I became
convinced that when Tennessee gets the habit of building
monuments, the memory of William Bean will mean as
much to Teiuiesseeans as that of Daniel Boont* to Kentucky,
and the state will erect a nu>nument to \Ailliam Bean and to
his wife who was the firsi heroine mentioned in the
pioneer history of Tennessee.
Captain William Bean, of Watauga, is believed to have
been descended from John Bean, who in 1660 came from
Ireland and settled in Exeter, Massachusetts. The Beans
were worthy people who boasted a coat-of-arms and who
contributed to the educational and social development of
Exeter. William was a favorite name with the Exeter
family, and one William at least drifted out upon the big
Pennsylvania frontier.
While Captain William Bean came from Pittsylvania
County of Virginia, lo Watauga, he was born in Pennsyl-
vania, and had possibly lived in North Carolina. There is
a tradition that he had spent his honeymoon at Fort Lou-
don and that through the intervention of Nancv Ward, the
daughter of a British adventurer, and the granddaughter of
Oconostoto, he and his wife were saved fnmi the massacre.
The tradition possibly originated through the efforts of
some writer to corrupt historical facts to meet the demand
of popular fiction.
Mrs. William Bean was before her marriage Lydia Rus-
sell, daughter of James Russell, of Virginia, and a member
of that pioneer family of the name who furnished so many
well-lmown frontier' soldiers and statesmen. When Mrs.
Bean accompanied her husband to Watauga she was the
mother of five children, William, Robert, George, Sarah and
Jane. It is possible that there were other children whose
names are not known. Before building his cabin, William
Bean and his wife kept house in the shanty erected by Bean
and Daniel Boone on a hunting expeditioh in that region;
Russell Bean, so says tradition, was born in this rude
habitation.
It was July 1, 1776, that the memof-able Indian attack
wa^ mad*** upon Fort Watauga. It had been seven years
8
Digitized by VjOOQIC
BEAN
since the Bean» came to Watauga, and the Watauga isiad
Holston 9ettleTnent3 numbered about six hundred people.
Forewarned by Isaac Thomas, a trader, to whom Nancy
Ward had confided the plans of the coming uprising, the
families surrounding Watauga had taken refuge in the fort,
but although her husband was on military duty. Mrs. Bean
had for some reason failed to do so, and was taken captive
by the Indians under the Cherokee chief, Old Al>ranam.
The Indians, on retreating, carried Mrs. Bean with them to
their camp on the Nollichucky River. Here, at the point of
a §un, she was forced to witness the torture and death of a
neighbor. Mrs. Bean was questioned concerning the
strength and provisions of the garrison at "the fort. Al-
though facing death, she retained her composure and an-
swered in a manner that would lead her questioners to con-
clude that the fort was well defended and possessed of pro-
visions sufficient to withstand a long siege.
Later Mrs. Bean was told "she would not be put to death
but be taken to the the Indian towns, where she should
leach the Indian squaws how to make butter*\ Subse-
quently she did accompany them to their towtt, where she
remained some time in captivity before being ransomed.
It is said she was saved by Nancy Ward who said that
the Magic Powers had revealed to her that the Nation
would be destroyed if they burned Mrs. Bean.
William Bean was one of the first patentees of the land
leased from the Indians by Charles Robertson as trustee for
the settlers and later secured by treaty. His name is found
to the petition for annexation to North Carolina, which is
in the archives at Raleigh, and was received by messenger
August 22, 1776. He was one of the earliest captains of
militia, and his name is given as one of the captams when
in response to Grovemor Rutherford's reauisiUon the com-
missioned officers met for the purpose of aispatching troops
for the relief of South Carolina.
From the beginning, the Watauga andi* Hqlston settle-
ments had been troubled with a few undesirable citi^^ens,
who, with the idea of obtaining more license, openly
avowed their Tory sentiments. In reality thev were but the
renegades such as are found in all isolated and frontier
settlements.
As the depredations of these men increased^iwo military
companies seem to have assumed, or to have been delegated
the duty of driving them out of the neighborhood — flt task
not so easy because of the wide area and mountainous
nature of the country.
9
Digitized by VjOOQIC
NOTABLE SOUTHERN FAMILIES
The captains of these two companies were William
Bean and Robert Sevier (a brother of Colonel Johii Sevier
who was morially wounded later at the battle of Kings
Mountain).
Captain Sevier had recently located in the NoUichucky
settlement near the present Green and Cocke County line.
William Bean in this year, 1778, when the depredations of
the Tories became serious, settled Bean Station in Grainger
County; this station was the foremost frontier post. It is
now known as Tate.
The worst of the Tory desperadoes was Grimes, or
'*Gaplain" Grimes, as he is called by the historians Hay-
wood and Ramsey. His real name was Henry Grimes, and
he had at one time possessed a sort of rt^pecfability anclvvas
one of fhe original patentees at Watauga.
Grimes had gathered together a banditti whoso crimes
panged from horse stealing to murder. Their lairs in the
mountains for a time seemed inaccessible. They killed a
Mr. Milliban (Millican in Washington County), and a Mr.
Grubbs who lived on the NoUichucky, had been carried
to a high cliff of the river, and with threats of' throwing
him off, forced to purchase his life with the promise to
(Bonvey all of his property to the Tory band. Mr. James
Rioddy, prominent during the State of Franklin, and rep-
resentative of Green County in the North Carolina Assem-
bly of 1785, was also captured by Grimes, but later ef-
fected his escape.
Captain Bean's company, having succeeded in driving
Isham Yeariey, a seditious Tory, from the NoUichucky. de-
termined to penetrate the Watauga mountains and arive
out Captaii^ Grimes and his men. Grimes, though wound-
ed, managed to escape to North Carolina. Here he joined
Ferguson. After the battle of Kings Mountain he was taken
prisoner, and again falling into the hands of \ho over-
mountain men, the latter saw that he paid in full the
penalty for all of his crimes. He was one of the nine Tories
convicted and hanged after the battle.
Serving under Captain William Bean in the expedition
that pursued Captain Grimes was his brother, John Bean, a
man of education, and a delegate to the convention of
FVanklin from Washington County, and also Captain
Bean's son, George Bean, and Edmond Bean, probably a son
of John Bean.
The Beans were all famous as riflemen, €md history
chronicles more than one instance of their marksmanship.
It is not generally known Ihat at one crucial period
diinng the Revolution the Watauga set41ement became a
10
Digitized by VjOOQIC
BEAN
haven of refuge not only for the hard-pressed little Whig
bands from both Georgia and North Carolina, but for the
families as well of the bold leaders who might suffer perse-
cution at the hands X)t the British and Tories. So welcome
were these refugees and so hospitable the peonle of the
over-rriountain settlements, that following ihe Revolution
many were glad to take up their permanent residence
among them.
Ramsey relates that *'when Colonel Clark returned to
Georgia after exile in the Watauga and Holston settlements
he was acco<mpanied by many recruits from this section".
One of these recruits was Robert Bean, the son of Cap-
tain William Bean. Colonel Clark with his small army in
Georgia was forced to use the same strategic methods of
warfare practiced by Marion and Sumpter in South Caro-
lina. On one occasion he approached a British camp, and
poslefd his men, among whom were many of the new re-
cruits, in ambus'h, and sent a small detachment to draw the
enemy within the ambuscade. The ruse was successful.
The unerring riflemen killed several British, with the loss of
only one Georgian. The commanding officer of the British
camp was shot down by Robert Bean. The behavior of the
mountain soldiers on this occasion is said to have done
much to perpetuate the friendship Clark already felt for the
people of the western settlements.
Another historic incident is that which occurred on Se-
vier's expedition in 1782, when he invaded as far as Ohicka-
mauga. Much of the trouble with the Indians had long
been attributed to the activities of British spies in the In-
dian towns. The disaffection among the Indfans of the
lower towns seemed to radiate from towns of the Chicka-
maugas, and in September Colonel John Sevier and 'Colonel
Joseph Anderson^ of Sullivan County, marched into the
hostile country, killed the warriors and burned their towns.
The spy to whom the trouble was attributed was dis-
covered at Coosa. He had assumed the name of Clements
and was living with an Indian woman by the name of
Nancy Coody. Papers were found on his person which
proved him to be a British sergeant. "Bean, one of the
soldiers, shot him dead". This member of the Bean family
may have been Jesse Bean, one of Sevier's captains, and who
also participated in the battle of Kings Mountain. Jesse
Bean accompanied Captain William Bean to Bean Station
and owned land near the fort: whether he was a son of
Captain William Bean, or a son of John Biean of Washing-
ton County, has not been ascertained.
H
Digitized by VjOOQIC
NOTABLE SOUTHERN FAMILIES
Like Daniel Boone, his old friend and companion, Gap-
tain Bean "did not like to be crowded''. He had helped
blaze the Boone trail and watched emigrants settle upon
the \Vatauga and Holston until they numbered perhaps a
thousand people, then he began io look around for a home
with more latitude^ and where game was more plentiful.
It is a family tradition that he selected the site of Bean Sat-
tion because* of ihe gap in the mountain, and because of the
sulbhur springs, and salt licks, which latter attracted deer
and other game.
Captain Bean erected Bean Station about the year 1778.
Since ne had grandchildren at this date, he could no longer
be considered a young man, but as this is the year of his
activities against the Tories it will be seen that he was still
very active in frontier military affairs. The fort is said to
have been strongly built and well defended, when occasion
necessitated, by the few families who settled in its prox-
imity.
The number of years that pioneer families lived in fear
and suffered the atrocities from the Indians is shown by
the massacre of Jane Bean, a daughter of Captain William
Bean, twenty-one years after the family had moved to
Bean Station.
Jane Bean had gone to a nearby spring for the purpose
of doing a washing when Indians hidden in a cedar thicket
jumped out, killed and scalped her. The grave may yet be
^een in the rear of a barn near the public road, and is
marked with a rough stone bearing the inscription, "Jane
Bean, Nov. 12, 1799," now on the place of Mr. Ethelbert
Williams, once part of the estate of the Cobbs at Tate.
The only remaining daughter of Captain Bean of whom
we have record is Sarah, who became the wife of John
Bowen, brother of the brave Lieutenant Reece Bowen,
whose death is so graphically described by Mr. Draper in
'Kinffs Mountain and it's Heroes".
There are many interesting traditions extant in this
branch of. the family of the early days at Bean Station.
The story goes that "on the day preceding the marriage
of Sarah B^n, when all plans had been made for the cele-
bration, John Bowen was called away to assist in quelling
an Indian uprising, and the wedding had to be postponed".
Two weeks later, however, the wedding took place and
after the culmination of ihe cerwnony the groom took his
bride to his cabin five miles distant fi^m the station. ^
The honeymoon was spent in continuous trepidation
and fear of the Indians, who at this particular time either
through real or imaginary grievances against encroach-
12
Digitized by VjOOQIC
BEAN
iiK?n<ls and broken faith of the settlers, were stealing into
t*vepy siQWemeM, massaortnn^ and plundering.
In the eariy morning Sar'ah Bowen wouW »take her pail,
ixiui while, her hiusband sto-od' giiaM in the doorw^ay with
his gu'n, (hasten'toBhe spring for water.
One night Sara'h 'arid' John Bo^vn were awakened by a
«feal'lhy and saiggeslive lapping oulside the door. They
arose, aiiTmed themselves with haibdhet and gim and awaited
the m»oanent of atitack!
Moments and hoaits passed apd nothing nion* alarming
tiranspiired tftimi Ihe same suggestive Tap! Tap! Tap!
With dawn the niysllery of the delayed al'Jtack was
solved. While dlipping candles on the doorstep, Mrs. Bowen
had spilled some of t«he laMow, which had altraoled a gan-
der one of several that Mrs.^ William Bean had bronghft her
daoighter the same day 'llhat she might collect feathers for a
new fearther tick!
Whicn Indian danger threatened and Mir. Powen.was off
on daily, one of SaraJh Bean-s brofthers would ha^teii for her,
force her to jump astride the horse behind hini^^a feat
eflbockinjg 1o the modesty, hurt necessary in llbe emergency,
and icfaish away with her to 4lhe proteolion of the forL
Mrs. Bowen was a true daughter of the frontier, and
lived to 'be ninetj-flhree yeaJrs old. Mier the death of her
husband ^e accom-paniied a son. on a fi^il^boait ilo Texas and
Bived and died near the present ci'ty of Daila3i. /
Russell Bean was ithe youngest child of iEtetptain William
Bean and Lydia Russell Bean, and his name has been im-
morta'lzed as '''the first white child; born in Tennessee". If
tradi'tikm is to be helieved, he grew np iHo be a hdndsome
youth wiilh blacky curly hair and fine physique. He married
^. daiugWte'r of (captain Cihairles Robertson, a man of culture,
a^ emigrant from Souith Gardin^ and trustee of ithe Wa-
"taiuga's^ iClers until their lands wert». pui'chased* oufrig'h't
fr«Mm the Indians. Hie was sometimes called "Black Charles
Rolberlison,'' ei'h.r Ix^caaise of ihis swar'lhiness of com-
pjexion cr to d'slinguish him from a neither Charles Robert-
son of the settl foment.
RusseiM Bean early developed a propensity for advenlllure,
fxften leaving Ms wife in Washington 'County, he adted as
pilot fiyr convoys down the river from Knoxvi'lle to the
Cuaivhppland settlemen'ts. Lat^T in the same capacity he
^'iTdvehd 'between Memphis and Naftehez.
On one occasion Russell Bean remained avv^ay for so
liing Ihat his aviife, believing him dead, married again. On
Ms r.^turn, finding her married., he proceeded (to lake the la-w
13 Digitized by Google
NOTABLE SOUTHERN FAMILIES
in his own hands in «l oiannep which placed! him in a
posi'tion ito be preseculed by the Robertson family.
After 'this unfortunate incidenW, Russell Bean lefi East
Tennessee, going to Nashville, where he married again, ami
it is saidi became one of the fi-rst police of that city, a po-
sHion offered him no doubt because of his umusual size and
strength.
The sequeal 'to tthe story of Russell Bean, if true, is one
in which "Old Hickory's" eloquence reoinited Russell Bean
with his ftt^l wife, death in the course of yeairs having
claimed the other participanfts in mailiriimoiiy.
On Ms way to be inaugurated in Was-hington. Andrew
Jackson was dining at the 'h'0>lel in the (»ld town of Jones-
bopo. As a dinner was being served Mr. Jackson saw Russell
Bean on the veranda of the hotel. It is true theit the do-
mestic felicity of the Iwn men had been (Hsrupted in a
mainner noik dissimilar in character, birt Jackson had been
tihe state's p<*08&e(3Uftin^ aittorney against Bean, and Russell
Bean's po^sence alt this time may not have indicated en-
thusiasm or good will toward 'llhe new President.
However, Mr. Jackson greeted h'im cordiailly, engaged
hum in conversation, eventually secluding him in a earner
of the hotel, were oblivious of dinner and waiting guesrtis,
he talked' long and elo<yuently. As a result of this meeting it
is said Russdl Bean sought a reconciliation with his wife.
Of course there may be doubting Thomases who will
disbelieve this tradition, but who does not wish the first
little babe born in the hunter's shanty on *he banks of «llhe
Watauga tJhe culmination of a happy romance?
The one tradition that can safely be denied is 4hat whch
^Mes "That Captain William Bean in his wild disin-
herited Russell, because of his treatment toward his wife".
RusseW Bean's domestic troubles occurred about the year
1796, fouHeen years after the death of Captain Bean.
Capitaiin William Beam's will was proved alt. the May
term of the Washington County court in the year 1782.
The next year, by the formation of a new county, Bean
Station was*^ thrown into Greene Gounliy. W is now in
Grainger County.
Russell Bean, the fiirst white child horn in ^^^a\ is now
Tennessee, married first Rosamund Robertson, daughter
of Charles Robertson, as before stated.
Ther children as given by Draper, were: Baxfrr
Charles, James, Joseph, Robert and Camilla. She married
a Garland.
Early records sftiow that Robert Bean, son of William,
resided near 'the llown of Greeneville in the year 1874. He
14
Digitized by
Google
BEAN
laler moved to Bean Station. *'Jacob Bean" owned land on
the suuJh side of the NoIIichucky River in 1788-99. David
Bean, in 1790, lived on the French Broad in Jeffet^soa
County. Rus&ell Bean was prosecuted in the courts of
Gi-cenpville in 1796; he was an inhabitani of the County in
1799, although Grainger County was formed from Hawkins
and Knox Counties in the year 1796.
All of the early Beans are supposed to have descendM
from Captain William Bean and his brother John, of
Washington County.
1 have been told that all of the family of Captain Bean
had left the neighborhood of Bean Station shortly after the
year 1800.
Of the last days of Captain Bean there is no tradition.
In 1780 he was one of the captains of the militia when re-
inforcements were sent into South Carolina, and the writer
is certain that some time she has seen a record of his
served while under Marion in that slate.
There seems to be no certainty of his burial place.
A few years ago a pile of rock near the grave of Jane
Bean vAas supposed to mark his grave, and perhaps other
memhei-s of the family. It is probable that this is true;
such monuments were common in the days when Indians
violated the graves of those who were their sworn enemies.
There was a day w hen Bean Station, located on the main
stage road at the gap in the mountain, promised to be
somewliat of a metropolis. That day is past, but it is still
often visited by the lover of historical spots. The springs
visited by many deer in Captain Bean's time are today an-
nually visited by many seekers after health and pleasure.
Tal(» Springs is typically a Tennessee resort. The site
of Bean Slation, where the first man who brought
his family to reside in Tennessee lived and died, as
did his wife, who in the face of an Indian rifle dared to
quibble with the truth, hoping by so doing that she might
save hvv neighbors, gathered in the little fort of Watauga,
is surely worthy of a monument.
Digitized by
Google
Digitized by
Google
BOONE
Thi' family of Daniel Hooiie (who is best known of the
ntiine), begins apparently with one (ieorge Boone, born in
England about 1625 or earlier. He married in England and
died in England. There are foo^ir (ieorge Boones in a direct
line, showing that George was an established family favor-
ite before Daniel made the name Bt)one a household word*
The first George Boone, born alM)ut 1625 or earlier, had
a son George Boone, born about 1646 or earlier. He was a
blacksmith. He married Sarah Uppen in England
about 1665. He died at the age of sixty years. Sarah Upp<Mi
Boone lived to be eighty years of age. They had at least
one son whon) they named George and who is the George
Boone the Third in this chronicle. He w^as born in 1666
at Stoak, near Exeter, Devonshiiv England. He was a
w^eaver and when he came to maturity he went to a neigh-
boring town to pui'sue his calling. There he married Mary
Maugridge. They were Quakers. They had nine children
and emigrated to America after thrive of the nine children
had emigrated lo the new country. George Boone the Third
died in America in 1744 in' Pennsylvania. His \vH'*\
Mary Boone, born 1669 in Brandnich,' England, married
about 1688 in Bradnich, died in Pennsylvonia, Feb. 2, 1740.
Tlieir nine children were born in Bradnich^' England,
the birth place of the mother and the marriage place of
George and Mary. The thive eld<»st children preceded their
parents to Am(»rica and in August 1717 the parents sailed
from England acc(»mpanied by lh(* remaining meanbers of
the family. Eight of the nim* children, all save John,
married and raised families.
The nine children were:
I George Booik* the fourlh.
II Sarah Boone marritHl Jacob Stover, a German.
ni Squire Boone born November 25, 1696, married
Sarah Morgan (1720) at (iwynedd Meeting House with a
Quaker ceremony.
IV Mary Boone married Jaunts \A'ebb.
V John Boone died unnuirried.
VI Joseph Boone.
VII Benjamin Boone nuuTied Sussanah .
Mil James Boone married Mary Foulks.
IX Samuel MoiMie.
17
Digitized by VjOOQIC
NOTABLE SOUTHERN FAMILIES
I OEOROE BOONE
George Boone, fourth of the name and one of the nine
children of George and Mary Maugridge Boone was one of
the emigrants that landed at Philadelphia, October 10,
1717.
George Boone, the Ft)urth was born in Bradnich, Eng-
land, July 13, 1690, died Nov. 20, 1753 in America. Early
traditions say that when ht^ was al>out twenty-two or three
he, his sister Sarah and his brother Squire Boone, were
sent by the family to America and that he returned with a
favorable report and that remaining members of the family
then accompanied him on his second journey to America,
landing at Philadelphia October 10, 1717. He mapried
Deborah Howell, 1713. She was born August 1691. died
January 26, 1759.
Their children were :
1 George Boone, Fifth, in a direct line, born ^713 or
1714; died unmarried in 1730.
2 Mary Boone, born 1716, married Isaac Lee.
3 Hannah Boone, born 1718, died 1753; married: George
Hughes and had three children : Boone Hughes, Jen Hughes
and SaTOuel BcK)ne Hughes, born 1766, and perhaps had
other children.
4 Deborah Boone, born 1720.
5 Dinah Boone, born 1722, married, fii'st.
Williams, and had Abner Williams, and married, second,
Cotes, and had Solomon Gotes.
6 William Boone, born 1724, married Sarali Lincoln
and had eight children: Jeremiah, William, George,
Thomas, Hezikah, Abigail (who married Adin Pancost),
Mary and Mordicai.
7 Joseph Boone, born 1726, married and
had at least one son, George Boone, and perhaps others.
8 Jeremiah Boone, born 1728.
9 Abigail Boone.
10 Hesekiah Boone, born 1743.
Another record gives also:
11 Sarah Boone, married David Wilcoxen.
II SARAH BOONE
I have been unable to find any record of Sarah Boone
subsequent to her marriage to Jacob Stover, a German, or
Jacob Stuber, March 15, 1715. She was born in Brandnich,
England, February 18, 1691.
^ III SQUIRE BOONE
Squire Boone, son of George and Mary Maugridge
Boone, was born in Brandnich, England, November 26,
18
Digitized by VjOOQIC
BOONK
4619. He was one of the three eldest children of the family
who were sent to America preceding the family emigration
in 1717. He married Sarah Morgan, July 23, 1720, at the
Qwynedd Meeting House, aocordfing to the Quaker cere-
mony. She was a daughter of John Morgan. The name
Squire is not just a corruption of Esquire or a title but
seems to have become a family cogomen l>ecau&e of some
previous connection and it descends for several genera-
tion®. Squire Boone was dismissed from the Quaker
Church in 1748 because he gave his approval to his son,
Israel Boone, for marrying 'out of the church''. Squire
Boone moved for this reason 1o Holman's Ford, North
Carolina, on the Yadkin River during or before the year
1750. It is to this circumstance that his sou. I>aniel Boone,
most famous of the name, became a pioneer of the North
Carolina, Tennessee and Kentucky Mountains.
Squire and* Sarah Boone had twelve children, namely:
1 Sarah Boone, born April 7, 1724; died 1824; married
John Wilcoxen.
2 Israel, born May 20, 1729; married about 1748 "^'out
of the Church" for in that year Squii^e Boone is dismissed
from the Quaker congregation for ajiproving his son's
marriage.
3 Samuel Boone, born May 3. 1878; died 1815. He was
in the Revolution. Married Sarah Day, who was alivo
October 19, 1730.
4 Jonathan Boone, born December 17, 1730.
5 Elizabeth Boone, born February 1(», 1732; married
William Grant, born 1720 and died 1804, in Fayette County,
Kentucky. He was among the Virginians who emigrated
to Kentucky in 1779 and built a fort at Bryan's Station
with his brother-in-law, Daniel Bo(»nf. He is mentioned
in histories of Kentucky! It is said Ihat Elizabeth after his
death, married Bouton Fletcher and another r«»eord says she
married John Turner.
6 Daniel Boone, born — , 1734. His record will follow.
7 Mary Boone, born November 14. 1736. 'married, first
William Bryan (see Br>'an familyK and married, second.
General Oharles Smith. '
8 George Boone, born Januarj- 13. 1738 or 1739.
9 Edward Boone, born NovemlMT 30. 1740 or 1742.
10 Squire Boone, Second.
11 Hannah Boone, bom August 1, 1740, died 1820;
married, first, John Stuart, who died 1770. They had four
children. She married, second, Richard P^Mniington and had
a fifth child whose name was Richard P^Muiinglon, and she
perhaps had other Pennington childnni.
10
Digitized by VjOOQIC
NOTABLE SOUTHERN FAMILIES
12 Nathan Boone.
Of the foregoing twelve children of Squire Boone the
First, and his wife, Sarah Morgan Boone, the record of each
is well established, but the story of Daniel Boone, the
Pioneer and Revolutionary hero, rather overshadiows all his
brothers and sisters and their families.
DANIEL BOONE
Daniel Boone was the sixth child of Squire Boone and
Sarah Morgan Boone. He was born 1734 in Bucks County,
Pennsylvania, and came to Holman's Ford, Yadkin River,
Nbrih Carolina some time during or before 1750 (some
records say 1749) while he was still quite young. He died
in 1820 in St. Charles, Missouri, at the home of his grand-
son, Nathan Boone. His body and his wife's were re-
intered in Frankfort, Kentucky.
He married Rebecca Brj-aii in 1755, his father Squire
Boone, then a Justice of Ihe Peace in Rowan County of-
ficiating. Rebecca was a daughter of Morgan Bryan (see
Bryan history). She died in Missouri in 1813. His meeting
with Rebecca when he thought she was a deer, or at least
a wild creature — sihe had gone out to the Spring to bring
in water — ^^his leveling his gun at her and later following
the supposed! deer into her father's house to meet her there
and fall in love with her, is all a part of his ro-
mantic history which is all deeply enmeshed in the history
of the three states: North Carolina, Tennessee and Ken-
tucky. This record however is briefly a genealogical story
and has not space for his remarkable history no matter how
interesting it is.
There were born to Daniel Boone and Rebecca Bryan
Boone children, namely:
1 James Boone, born Mav 5, 1757; killed by Indians
October 10, 1775.
2 Israel Boone, born 1759; killed by Indians.
3 Susannah Boom*, born November 2, 1760; married
William Hiays.
4 Jemima Boone, born October 4, 1762 (Kentucky his-
tory says she was born 1775) ; married Flandei*s Calloway.
5 Lavina Boone, born March 13, 1776; married Joseph
Echoll.
6 Daniel Morgan Boone, born 1768, said to })e the first
settler in Kansas; married Sarah Lewis.
7 Rebecca Boone, born 1770; married Phillip Goe.
8 Jesse Bryan Boone, born 1773; married Chloe Van
Bibber, daughter of Captain John V^an Bibber.
9 William Boone, born June 1775; died young.
20
Digitized by VjOOQIC
BOONE
10 Nathan Boone, born 1781; married Olive Van Bib-
ber; buried at Ash Grove, Missouri.
Rebecca Bryan Boone was probably the first white
woman in Kentucky and with her husband must be called
one of the founders of Boonsborough, the s^ond oldest
settlement in Kentucky. The first woman to own a piece
of land in 'Kentucky was Susannah, daughter of Daniel and
Rebecca Boone> who at an early date obtained a patent
for a tract in Madison County. Daniel kept on exploring
all his life and his wanderings were many, finally taking
him to the present state of Missouri where he died.
Susannah Boone, third child of Daniel and Rebecca
Bryan Boone, married William Hays. They went to Ken-
tucky with Daniel an-d Hartley's Life of Daniel Boone
speaks of his living with -his daughter, Susannah Hays, in
Piatte County, Missouri. Among her children were: Lucy
Hays, who married Lancaster, and had Ramson M.
Lancaster, ( who married Sarah A. Roberts) and Lucy
Lancaster, (who married Jenkins) ; and Susan Hays
who married Isaac Van Bibber and had Fannie Van Bibber
who married Cyrenius Cox and had Missouri Cox and
James M. Cox..
Jemima Boone, daughter of Daniel Boone and Rebecca
Bryan Boone was born October 4, 1762. She wms captured by
the Indians when she was a child but was rescued. She
married Flanders Galloway and had ten children, namely:
John B. Calloway (who married Elizabeth Cotton) ; Larkins
Calloway (who married Susan Howell) ; Captain James
Calloway (who married Nancy Howell) ; Susannah Callo-
way (who married Thiomas Howell); Frances Galloway;
Daniel Boone Calloway; Sallie Boone Galloway; Tabitha
Calloway; Betsy Calloway and Minerva Galloway.
Digitized by
Google
Digitized by
Google
BORDEN
The founder of the Borden family iii America was Rich-
ard Borden, a son of Matthew Borden, church warden of
Hedcorn Parish, County Kent, England, and his wife, Joan.
Matthew Borden is traced back to Henry Borden of Hedcorn
Parish who was born about 1375. and his wife, Rober^ia.
The Borden family is of Norman- English origin; the origi-
iiaj spelling of the name was Bourdon. There have been
many variants on the name Borden, the most frequent be-
ing, at least in the American family, the form Burden.
Richard Borden, Ihe inmugrant, was born at Hedcorn and
was baptized September 22, 1595. On September 28, 1625,
he was married in Hedcorn church to Joan Fowle. In 1628
Richard and Joan (Fowle) Borden removed from the parish
of Hedcorn to the neighboring parish of Oranbrook, thence
in 1635 to New England, settling in Boston Neck, near Rox-
bury, Massachusetts. In the spring of 1638, they became
members of the first colony of settlers of Rhode Island.
Richard Borden was one of the three men who laid out the
original town of Portsmouth, Rhode Island, and according
to Mussell (American Ancestry. Vol. VII), he was elected
in 1654 treasurer of the United Colonies. The first five
children of Richard and Joan (Fowle) Borden were born
in England; the sixth, Matthew, born May 16, 1638, was the
first while child born ^ju Rhode Island. ' In all there were
4(welve children. From the seventh, John, the Southern
Bordens are descended. During the last centurv his de-
scendants have greatly outnumbered those of all his
brothers, and now they may be found in almost every state
of tlie Union. He married Mary Earle, daughter of William
and Mary (Walker) Earle, and granddaughter of Ralph and
Jon(a Earle, who weiv also among the original setters of
Rhode Island.
J0hn and Mary (Earle) Borden had nine children. Of
'these the sixth son and youngest child, Benjamin, born in
Portsmouth 1692, inherited 5,000 acres of land in Pennsyl-
vania and also acquired a large estate in New Jersey, where
he settled. It is said that he first went to Virginia'in 1732.
By a grant dated July 12, 1734, 1,122 acres of land "on the
we&tern side of the Shenandoah River in the county to be
called' Orange" were patented to Benjamin Borden, Andrew
Hapton and David Grifflth. The county court of Orange
23
Digitized by VjOOQIC
NOTABLE SOUTHERN FAMILIES
was opened January 124734,aiid the justices included in the
^'Commission of Peace'', wore James Barbour (grandfather
of Governor James Barbour and Phillip Pendleton Bar-
bour), Zachary Taylor (grandfather of President Taylor),
Joist Hite, Morgan Morgan. Benjamin Borden, and the
ubiquitous John Smith.
Benjamin Borden deserves to have his najme remem-
bered chiefly on account of the part he played in settling
up the valley of Virginia, he obtained from Governor
Gooch, October 3, 1734, i)atent for a tract of land in
Frederick County which was called Borden's Manor. At
the same time he was promised 100,000 acres (according to
Peyton's History of Augusta Comity (500,0(X)),on th(^ waters
of the James River, as soon as he should locate one hundred
Aeltlers on tho tract. Borden's Manor was south of
Beverly's Manor, and it embraced the whole upper part of
Augusta and Rockbridge Counties, the famous Natural
Bridge being located on the tract. Ncith<?r Borden nor the
proprietors of Beverly's Manor (William Beverly, John
Randolph, Richard Randolph and John Robertson) tired
in their etTorts to secure immigrants. Borden mady* at least
two trips to Europe for this purj)ose. He returned from the
first one in 1737 with a number of colonists. The first
settlers on Borden's Manor were Ephriam McDowell and his
family. They were soon followed by Archibald Alexander,
John Fatton, Andrew Moore, Hugh T^elford, John Matthews,
the Prestons, Paxtous, Lyl(»s, Grigsbys, Stewarts, Wallaces.
Wilsons, Caruthers, Calnpbells, McClungs, McRaes, ana
others who became the founders of some of Virginia's dis-
linguished families.
Benjamin Borden died November, , possessed of
130,000 acres of land in Virginia and New Jersey. He, was
survived by his wife, Jerusah, who soon returned to New
Jersey to reside, and by ten children, as follows: (1) Bea-
jamin, who married Mrs. Magdalene (Woods) McUowell
(they had only one child who gn^w to maturity, a daughter.
Martha, who married, first Benjamin Hawkins, and had
four children:: (1) Sarahj who married William Mitchell,
•(2) Magdalene, w^ho married Colonel Harvey, (3) William
and (4) James. Martha (Borden) Hawkins married,
second, Robert Harvey) ; (2) Hannah, who married Edwara
Rogers (their son, Edward, was a Revolutionary soldier) ;
(3^ Mercy, who married William Fearnley; (John (see
below) ; (5) Abigail, who married, first, Jacob Worthing-
ton (they had a son, William, who married Elizabeth
Machir), and, second, James Pritchard; (6) Rebecca, who
married Thomas Bronson, and had two sons, Levi and Eli,
24
Digitized by VjOOQIC
BORDEN
(7) Deborah, who married Thomas Henley; (8) Lydia, who
married Jacob Peck (see below) ; (9) Elizabeth, who
married, first Nichols and had a son, William, born 1747,
and, second. Patton and left Patton descendants in Tennes-
we, and (10) Joseph, who removed to Tennessee.
John feorden, son of Benjamin, Sr., died in 1875 in
Covington, Kentucky, leaving eight children: (1) Joseph,
of Knoxville. Tennessee, (see below), and William, who
settled in White County, Tennessee, and later removed to
Washington County, Arknasas, where he left three sons.
John, Joseph and William; (a) Benjomin, who married
and had several daughters; (4) John, who died in Harde-
man (^/ounty, Tennessee, leaving several daughters; (5) Re-
becca, who married Overs tree t^ of Overton County, Tennes-
see; (6) Margaret, who married Judge Keither, of Knox-
ville; (7) Nancy, who married John Mc Williams, of Bled-
soe County, Tennessee, and (8) Sarah, who married Alex-
ander McCoy, of Knoxville.
Joseph Borden of Knoxville, married Mary Echols.
They had five children: (1) Eli, who married Marcha
Wheeler; (2) Hawkins, who settled in Walker County,
Alabama; (3) John, who married, first, Catherine Matlock,
and second, Catherine Sevier, a grandaughter of Governor
Sevier (see Sevier family) ; (4) Joseph, who settled in 1818
JBn Calhoun County, Alabama, and f5) Ann, who married
Moses Johnson and had one son, Allan.
I think it probable that Borden's first wife, Catherine
Matlock, was also of the Sevier family and that she was a
daughter of William and Polly Sevier Matlock, the latter a
sister of Governor John Sevier, and named Catherine for
flie governor's other sister.
Lydia Borden, daughter of Benjamin, Sr., (born 1720,
died 1801), married Jacob Peck, a native of Wurttemberg,
Germany, who settled 1738 in Pennsylvania. This name was
written Beck, but in southern Germany was pronounced
Peck. All of the sons of Jacob used the form Peck, with the
possible exception of Joseph, whose last reference found
m 1785. is under the name Beck. Joseph probably settled
in Nortnern Alabama; Hardesty (Historical and Geograph-
ical Encyclopedia) says that Jacob settled in Alabama, but
Oils doubtless incorrect as he was still living at Staunton,
Virginia, at the age of 71). Jacob and Lydia fBorden) Peck
hftd eight children: (1) Benjamin (see below) ; Jacob, who
married , first, Mary Abney, and second, Elizabeth Dash-
Itam; (3) John H., of. Botecourt Countv, Virginia, who
married Mary McCreary;: (4) Adam, who settled in East
Tenne'ssef*. and left a number of descendants, inchiding
26;- .
Digitized by VjOOQIC
NOTABLE SOUTHERN FAMIUES
Judge J. Peck, one of the founders of Emory and Henry
College; (5) Mary, who married Jacob Carper; (6) Joseph,
who married Hannah Thomas (Joseph W6U5 a soldier of the
Revolution, as some of his brothers are said to have been;
(7) Hester (see below), and (8) Hannah who married Peter
Holm.
Benjamin, son of Jacob and Lydia (Borden) Peck, was
born in 1746. He married Margaret Carper and settled in
what is now Craig County^ Virginia. They had five sons :
John, Jacob, Adam, Benjamin and Joseph. John, the
eldest son. was born September tO, 1772. He settled in Giles
County, Virginia, and in 1806 was appointed one of the first
Justices of the Peace of that county. He married Elizabeth
Snidow, daughter of Colonel Christian Snidow and his
wife, Mary Burke, a granddaughter of Captain James
Burke, who in 175o, discovered the picturesque valley in
Tazewell Goimty, Virginia, known as Burke's Garden.
The^ir Children were: (1) Mary Burke, Who married her
cousin, Benjamin Borden Peck; (2) Margaret Carper, who
married Charles Lewis Pearis, son of Colonel George and
Rebecca (Clay) Pearis (their only child, Electra, married
Dr. Charles W. Pearis, son of Samuel P. and Rebecca
(Chapmab) Pearis) ; (3) Christian Lewis, who married
Susan Price and left descendants in Giles County; (4)
Clara S., who married John H. Vawter (they had several
children, among them a son. Captain Charles E. Vawter, for
many years i)rincipal of the Miller School, of Albermarle
County, Virginia, who married Virginia Longley) ; (5)
Joseph Addison who married Eellen Baker and settled in
Texas; (6) Sarah S., who married Edwin Amos (they had
a daughter, Sarah, who married Colonel William Palmer,
of Richmond and Blacksburg, Virginia. Their daughter.
Sarah, married' Robert Preston Reams and their only chila
is Mrs. Valentine Nesbit, of Birmingham. Another daugh-
ter, Elizabeth Palmer, married Frank Christian, a third;
Lelia, married Eigbert Leigh, of Richmond, and the fourth,
Claudia, is Mrs. William Ormond Young, of Richmond)^
(7) William Henry, who married Elizabeth Amos, a siswt
of Edwin, and settled in Logan County, West Virginia;
(8) Rebecca R., who died young; (9) Charles Decatur, who
married Rachel Hoge Thomas, a daughter of Colonel Wil-
liam Thomas and wife, Rachel Montgomery Hoge, who
was a granddaughter of James and Elizabeth (Howe) Hoge,
pioneer settlers of what is now Pulaski County, Virginia;
(10) Dr. Erastus Watson Peck, who married first, Mary
Mason, of Lynchburg, second Ann Handfley, and third
Martha Hobbs; (H) Elizabeth E., who married Dr. Robert B.
26
Digitized by VjOOQIC
BORDEN
McNult (Ihey had several sons and two daughters (1) Mary,
who married Colonel James Barbee Peck and had several
children among them a daughter, Josephine, who married
Dr. S. D. Long, president of Martha Washington College,
and Juanita, who married Judge George B. Sinclair, form-
erly of GharloHesville, Virginia, now of New York) ; (12)
Martha M, who married Judge John Alexander Kelly, son
of Vincent Howell and Ann Simmons (Alexander) Kelly
(one of their sons, Francis Alexander Kelly, married Eliza
Patton (see Gaines family, Volume I Notable Southern
Families) ; another. Judge L. Kelly, of Virginia Court of
Appeals, married Mary Hull, daughter of Gaptain D. D.
Hull, of Marion. Virginia), and (13) Josephine E., who
married Dr. Richard Phillips and settled in Alabama.
Jacob, the second son of Benjamine and Margaret
(Carper) Peck, married Malinda Givens. They had eleven
children: (1) Benjamin Borden, who married Mary Burke
Peck (they had six sons, Pembroke, Charles, Lewis, James
H., Jacob A., Erastus H. and Borden Wallace, who was
killed in the battle of Gettysburg) ; (2) Williaim Givens,
who died unmarried; (3) Elisha G., who married Margaret
Peters; (4) Daniel R., who died unmarried; (5) George
Harrison, who married Sarah J. Handley; (C)) James Pres-
ton, who married Elizabeth Scott; (7) Jacob H., who
married Ann Hendley; (8) Margaret Carper, who married
Archibald Peck, son of John and Jane (Hutcheson) Peck;
(9) Rhoda E., who married James MoClaugherty; (10)
Louisa S., who married Lewis Payne and (11) Rebecca,
who married John A. Calfee.
Benjamine, son of Benjamin and Margan't (Carper)
Peck, married Rebecca Snidow, sister of his brother's wife,
and settled in Monroe County, West Virginia. Their chil-
dren were: (1) W^illiara H., (2) Christian, (3) Prancii,
(4) John S., who married Mary Burke Snidow, daughter
of Johii and Rachel (Chapman) Snidow. (They had the
following children: James P., who was killed in 1864 in
Ihe batlJe of Cold Harbor; Hugh T., who lives in Maryland,
Chapman J., of Giles County, John, Ann, who married John
P.' Peck, and Elizabeth, who married Harvey Snidow) ; (5)
Martha Hobbs;( 11) EHmberfh E., who married Dr. Robert B.
who niarried John A. Chalfee.
Hester Peck, daughter of Jacob and Lydia( Borden) Peck,
married Isaac Van Meter. They had eight children: (1)
Hiannah, who married McFerrin; (2) Mary, who married
Charles Hedrick; (3) Elizabeth, who married Benjamin
Carper (they had three sons, James, George and Joseph,
who married Ann W^est and had four children: Elizabeth,
27
Digitized by VjOOQIC
NOTABLE SOUTHERN FAMILIES
who married Echols, Robert who was killed near
Williamsburg, Virginia, in the War Between
the States; Wyndham, and Ariaha Williamson, who
married William B. Bean — Dr. Robert Bennet Bean,
of the University of Virgnia, is their son) ;
(4) Placentia, who married McFerrin;
(5) Jacob, who married Patsy Ushur Shrewsbury (see be-
low) ; Joseph, of Marion, Virginia, who married Damaris
Lockland, of Hagerstown, Maryland. (They had seven
children, none of whom left descendants; (7) Sarah Haw-
kins, wno married Dr. Eleazer Sweetland and settled in
Greenup County, Kentucky (see below).
Jacob and Fatsy (Shrewbury) Van Meter had eight
children: (i) William Steel, who married Mary Shrews-
berry; (2) Mary, who married William Cooke; (3) Julia,
who married Atwood G. Hobson; (4) Caroline E., who
married George Bradley Adams, of Bowling Green, Ken-
tucky; (5) Samuel Kirk, who married Jane Sharp; (6)
Charles Joseph, who married Mrs. Catherine (Moss) Overall;
(7) Sarah, who married M. P. Clarkson and (8) Clinton
Clay, who died unmarried.
Dr. Eleazer and Sarah Hawkins (Van Meter) Sweetland
had ten children: (1) Elizabeth, who married Thomas
Jefferson Obenchain, of Wythville, Virginia; (their eldest
son. Dr. William Alexander Obenchain, president of Ogden
College, Bowling Green, Kentucky, married Eliza Calvert,
the novelist, whose nom de plume is Eliza Calvert Hall.
They have four children : Margery, William, Thomas Hale
and Cecilia Calvert) ; (2) Mary Hester, who married Georfi:e
Walter Strickland; (3) Charles Gouldf, who died in StricK-
land, California, unmarried; (4) Samuel McFerrin, who
married first Martha Abernethy and second, Mary Aber-
nethy; (5) Martha, who married Elijah Walker; (6) Isaac
Van Aleter, w^ho married Martha Russell; (7) Henry PetUi,
who married Augusta Ladd; (8) Captain William A., wh#
was killed in the battle of Gettysburg; (9) 'Sarah> who
married Luke Powell, and (10) James Otis, who married
Martha Scott.
William Borden, fifth son of John andj Mary( Earle)
Borden married Alice Hull, daughter of John and Alice
(Teddeman) Hull, and settled in 1733 in Beaufort Gaimty,
North Carolina, on the river which he named Newport
River. They had three daughters and one son, WilUain^
who married Mrs. Comfort (Lovett) Small. Thipy bad 9jix
children, as follows: (1) John, who died young;. (2) Wil-
liam, married Ann Delaney, and had one son, Barcley; (3)
Alice who married Colonel David Ward; (4) Ben j amine,
28
Digitized by VjOOQIC
BORDEN
who married, first Nancy Wallace, and' second, Rebecca
Staunton; (5) Hope, who married Asa Hatch, of Jones
County, North Carolina, and (6) Joseph, who married Mrs.
Esther (Wallace) Easton, daughter of David and Mary
(Willis) Wallace. Joseph and' Esther (Wallace) Borden
resided in Carteret County, North Carolina. They had nine
children: (i) William, who married Elizabeth Dickson.
(They had two children, Eleanor Hull, who died unmarried,
and Martha Webb, who married, John S. Telfair; (2) Ben-
jamin, who married, first Margaret Hill and second, Mrs.
Martha (Cocke) Gray, of Lynchburg, Virginia. (They had
seven children, as follows: Joseph who married Prances
Scott Gray; Thomas J., who married Elizabeth Byrn;
Miranda, who married Major Thomas Crawford Clark;
William A., who married Alice G. Moore; Mary, who
married, first William T. Cheney and second Edward Fen-
wick Campbell; Benjamin Clayborn, who married Robert
Moon\ and James Pennington, who married Melissa Par-
ham. (3) David Wallace, who married his cousin, Hope
Ward (their children were Elizabeth Graham, who married
George Lovic Pierce, Mary James, who married David
Grace of Birmingham, Hannah War, who married, first
George Lovic Pierce and second, William Kirk Wallace,
and Joshua A., who died young). (4) Joseph, of Borden,
California, who married Juliet Rhodes; (they had eight
children: Thomas Pennington, Mary, Judge Rhodes Bor-
den, of the Supreme Court of San Francisco, Nathan Lane,
who married Minnie Lee Borden, Sheldon, who married
Frances Burnett, Ivey Lewis, who married Hetty Thompson,
and Ann Helen). (5) Thomas Richardson, who married
Ann M. Jones; (6) Judge James Wallace Borden, who
married Emma Griswx)ld (their children are Esther, who
married George H. Aylesworth, Mary, Rebecca, Kenyon,
who married Charles E. Grover, Joseph, William, who
married Lavinna Fielding, Brigadier-General George Pen-
nington Borden, who married Elizabeth Reynolds; Emiline,
who married Oaptain Charles E. Hargous and David H.
who married Mary Nelson) ; (7) Mary Wallace, who
married Israel Sheldon; (they had one daughter, Mary, who
married, first William Watson Woolsey and second, Colonel
Woolsey Rogers Hopkins). (8) Isaac Pennington, who
married Elizabeth Marset and (9) Hannah G., who died
young.
A third branch of the Borden family that settled in the
South is descended from Arnold Borden, (born September
3, 1795), a grandson of Joseph, the third son of John and
Mary (Earle) Borden. Arnold Borden married Ann Brown-
29
Digitized by VjOOQIC
NOTABLE SOUTHERN FAMILIES
rigg and moved to Goldsboro, North Carolina, and also
purchased an estate in North Alabama. They had seven
children: (1) Harriet, who married Dr. Charles F. Dewey,
uncle of Aarairal Dewey; (2) James Cole, a captain in th^
Confederate Army, who married Mary Caruthers; (d)
Edwin Brownrigg, who anarried Georgia WhitefleW; (4)
Louisa, who married Frances W. Kornegay; (5) Sarah,
who married Dr. John Miller; (6) Eugenia Arnold, who
died in infancy, and (7) William Henry, who married, first
Susan Edmondson, second, Julia Edmondson, and third
Harriet Kennedy.
The founder of a fourth branch of the Borden family
was Gail Borden II, who married Philadelphia Wheeler, a
descendtmt of Roger Williams. This Gail Borden was a
grandson of John, who was the second son of John and
Mary (Earle) Borden. Gail and Philadelphia (Wheeler)
Borden settled in 1841 in Kentucky. They had four sons :
(1) Gail III (see below) ; (2) Thomas Henry, who married,
first Dennis Woodward and second Louisa A. Graves, ana
settled in Galveston, Texas; (3) Paschal Pavolo, who
married Mary S. Hatch and settled in Weimar, Texas. The
eldest of these four brothers was born November 6, 1801.
He was an important figure in ihe early history of Texas,
where he was mtimately connected with Stephen F. Aus^tin.
He was the inventor of pemmican meat biscuits and an ex-
cellent beef extract and in 1856 he patented his celebrated
condensed milk. Texas commomorates his name in Borden
County, of whicli ihe principal town is Gail. He married
Penelope Mercer, and nad seven child*ren: (1) Henry Lee.
who was head of the Borden Condensed Milk Company or
Chicago; (2) Morton Quinn, who died young; (3) Pniladel-
phia Wheeler, who married Judge Jehu Warner Parker of
Clarksburg, West Virginia; (4) Stephen Austin, who died
young; (6) Mary, who married Mills S. Munsill of Con-
necticut; (5) John Gail of Ormond, Florida, who married
Ella L. Graves. Ho succeeded to the presidency of the New
York Condensed Milk Company at the death of his father.
Thomas Benrj' and Louisa (Graves) Borden had two
sons, John who married Mary McKee and James Cochran,
who married Palmyra Atkinson, daughter of Dorsey and
Mary (Patton) Atkinson, of Williamson County, Tenn.
Parschal Pavolo and Martha (Stafford) Borden also had
two sons, Milan, who married Ella Underwood, and Wil-
liam, who married Emma Graves.
John Petti t and Mary (Hatch) Borden, had four chil-
dfren : Thaddeus H., who was killed in the War Between the
Slates; Sidney G., who married Mary Sullivan; Fielda, who
30
Digitized by VjOOQIC
BORDEN
married William J. Duffel and Lee deWitt, 'who married
Mary A. Green, of Lrouisville, Kentucky.
The Borden coat of arms is as follows : The field azure,
a chevron engrailed, ermine, two bourbons, or pilgrim's
staves proper in chief; and a cross-crosslet in base^ or
Crest; a lion rampant above a scroll (au^gent) on his smis-
!er foot: Motto Falma Virtuti: and above the crest, Ex-
celsior.
Digitized by
Google
Digitized by
Google
BRYAN
It has been said that I he family tree of the O'Briens
bends beneath the weight of its royal ancestry. "On every
branch hangs a monarch" was almost too true at one time.
Kings of Thomound. of Munster and Limrick, Earls of
Ichquin and Barons of Tadcaster are of this line.
The Monarch, Brien Born, killed at the battle of Clontart
in 1014, is said to be responsible for the name Bryan as the
surnaime, the "0" meaning the son of, or descendiant of
Brien, and no matter whicit the s[^H»llng of the name, they
are all the same family, from Machias O'Brien of Maine
with his six fighting sons to Joseph Bryan, the English
planter, who selfled in Sonth (Carolina prior to 1700.
Pennsylvania, Virginia and North Carolina received
their quota of emigrants of the name, three main lines all add
to the stime story of politioxil intngue iji Ihe old country,
showing a common ancestor. Many believe this to be
William Smilh Brjan, **dei)orted to the colony of Virginia
in 1650, as an undesirabh* citizen, with his family goods
and chatties, consisting of a shipload (McKenzie (>)lonial
Families, Vol. VI).
He was the son of Sir Francis Bryan, a prominent man
of Ireland about the middle of the i(Uh century.
One authority 'makes Francis Bryan the son of William
Smith Bryan and places William Smith Bryan's amval in
Virginia, in 1615, with tlu^ statem^Mit that between the years
1623 and 1666 there were twenty-one Bryans, sons and
grandsons of William Smith Firjan. who took up lands in
Virginia. Certain it is that in 1631. January 2, John Bryan,
aged 25, was transported to Virginia in boat ''Bonaventure'*
William Smith Bryan is said to be the ancestor of Sir
f)dK\^ard O'Brien, of William Smith O'Brien and Lord
Ichquin. The Edward O'Brien line settled in North
Carolina. ''Edward was the eldest of five brothers, an«l
brought with him the coronet which was his birth-right*.
33
Digitized by
Google
NOTABLE SOUTHERN FAMILIES
Needhani Bryan, born in Virginia in 1690, settled in
North Carolina, "''urged by relatives already there''. William
Smith Bryan, the first in Virginia, son of Sir Francis Bryan,
settled in Gloucester County, Virginia, and had eleven sons.
We are only sure of one, Francis, the eldest, altho Morgan
Bryan in Nlorfolk County in 1093 is thought to be a son.
Perhaps also James Bryan a land owner in Isle of Wight
County and his brother, William Bryan (father of Need-
ham) who settled in Isle of Wight County in 1688, Richard
in King George County, 1694 and John the father of five
O'Briens w^ho settled in North Carolina (Edward, William,
John, Council and Hnrdy}. In Vol. VI, Virginia Colonial
Records, page 12, the will of Thomas Wight, Sept. 20, 1672,
of Moratico Creek, mentions sonvs-in-law Thomas and
Robert Bryan.
Francis Bryan, eldest son of William Smith Bryan, bom
about 1630, returned to Ireland in 1667 and endeavored to
recover his heredatary titles and estates, but was so perse-
cuted by the English Government that he sought refuge in
Denmark where he married Sarah Brinker or Brunker. He
later returned to Ireland, where he died in 1694. His son,
Morgan, was born in Deimiark in 1681 and William in
Ireland in 1685.
THIRD GENER.\TION
"After Morgan Bryan (PYaiicis, William Smith) came
to years of maturity, he left his parents in Ireland and canv.^
to America, to Pennsylvania. The record shows that Mor-
gan Bryan lived in Chester County, where in 1719 he
married Martha Strode". Several children were born in
Pennsylvania. Then in 1728 or 1730, he with Alexander Ross
and others received a grant of one thousand acres of land
on the Potomac and Opequan Rivers in Virginia, and settled
near the present site of Winchesler. Here the rest of his
children were born, and Martha Strode Bryan died in 1747.
After her death he sold his interest in Virginia and in the
fall of 1748 moved his family to North Carolina and settled
in the forks of the Yadkin River, then Anson County, later
(1753) Rowan. About two years later Squire Boone moved
from Pennsylvania to North Carolina, and became a near
neighbor. Here Daniel Boone and Rebecca Bryan were
were married in 1755 and William Brj^an and Mary Boone
the same year. All family records say ihat Mariha Strode
Bryan died 1747 in Virginia, but in Augusta County
Records, Vol. Ill, p. 340, we fmd that on September 27, 1753,
Edward Hughes, Squire Boone and James Carter, of Roane
County, were appointed to take acknowledgement . of
34
Digitized by VjOOQIC
BRYAN
Martha, wife of Morgan Bryan.
Morgan Bryan died in 1763, aged 92 years. (This would
make his birth 1671) and was buried in Rowan County.
His will on file at Salisbin\v Oounty, North Gajrolina, Wfll
Book A, /p. 13. gives unto 'my beloved son, Thomas, my
mansion house and plantation*; unto my beloved daughter,
Elinor linville, all my wife's apparel. I give and bequeath,
Joseph, Samuel, Morgan, John, Willam, Jamt^ and Thomas
and daughter Elinor Linville, etc.
The children of Morgan and Martha Strode Bryan were:
1 Joseph, born 1720; married Hester Hampton (second
wife) or name Alice and Hester.
2 Samuel, married Masmilla Simpson.
3 James, boni 1723-1802; married 1750. Rebecca Knox.
4 Morgan Jr., born May 20, 1729; niarried Mary
Forbes.
5 John, married Frances Battle.
6 Elinor, married William Linvilln.
7 Mary, married Forbes.
8 William, died 1781; married 1755, Mary Boone.
9 Thomas, born 1736. died 1789; married Hunt.
10 Sarah.
11 Rebecca, married 1755, Daniel Boone.
Of these, James, Morgan and William and some records
say Joseph, went to Kentucky with Boone and built the fort
known as Bryan's Station.
1 Joseph, the eldest, remained in Virginia, while the
others moved to North Carolina with their father. He is
found in many deeds in Augusta County, and his wife Alice
as la;le as 1754 and 1755, /"Alice, wife of IJosejjh Brj^an,
has a private examination". They had three sons : William,
Morgan and John.
2 Samuel was the only son of Morgan Bryan who did
not serve in the Revolution. He raised an army of eight
hundired men and tendered them with himself to the Gover-
nor of North Carolina to fight for the King. After the war
he was courtmarshalled and his property was confiscated.
No record of descendants.
3 James Bryan, son of Morgan and Martha (Strode)
Bryan, was born in 1723, died in 1802. He married in 1756,
Rebecca Knox. They had the following children :
David Bryan, born Oct. 29, 1757, who married Mary
Poor and had ten children: James, Morgan Elizabeth,
Mary, Willis, John, Susian, Hrizella, Samuel and William.
35
Digitized by VjOOQIC
NOTABLE SOUTHERN FAMIUES
Jonathan, born Julv 15, 1759, married Mary Hughes
Ooshon and had ten childlren: Parthenia, Phoebe, Nancy,
Elijah, Abnep, Mary, Alsey, Jaones, Delilah and Lavinia.
Henry, bom Jan. 15, 1759; married Ehzabeth Sparks
and had eight children: Susan, Joseph. Rebecca, Elizabeth.
Cynthia, Johannah, John W. and Polly.
Susannah, born April H, 1763; married Israel Grant
and had three children: James, William and Israel B. Granl.
Mary, born December 13, 1705.
Rebecca, born March 1, 1767; married first Hugh L(»guu,
and married second, James Smith. Her seven children
were: William, Alexander, Hugh, Henry and Marj^ Logan
and Susan and James Smith.
4 Morgan Bryaji, Jr., died May 2, 1729; married Mary
Forbes; was one of the committee of Public Safety for
Rowan County, North C4arolina. Morgan also went to Ken-
tucky. His son, George Bryan, (died 1758| married in the
Fort, Elizabeth Neal Rogers, in May, 1780, the first marriage
solemnized in Kentucky. George Brjan served in the Revo-
lution and is on the pension list of 1840 from Bourbon
County, Kentucky. He married second, Mrs. Cassandra
xMiller, in 1830, and died November 22, 1845, in Springfield,
Illinois. Only record of one son, William Smith, died
March 17, 1785, at Bryans Station; married Judith Field,
January 25, 1814. They had three sojis and one daughter:
1 William Smith, niarried Miss Itartlett, of Louisville.
2 George W., born August 23, 1815, married Elizabeth
Miller.
3 Robert T., nuuTJed first, Miss Kenny; married second,
Mary Offutt.
4 Eliza, married Frank Tucker; no issue.
5 John Bryan, married Frances Battle. He wasaCalpaiii
in the Revolution and while home on a furlough, the first
or second morning, was killed at his own door by Colonel
Flanning, a British olficer with a squad of men, who had
by some means learned of his presence. They called him to
the door and demand^ that he take oath \o support the
King's cause and' shot him upon his refusal to do so. He is
said to have had a large family. One son, Lewis Brjan,
married Elizabeth White and had six children:
1 Sarah, married Jesse Salts.
2 Aiuiie, married Isaac Rebber.
3 Polly, married Peter Iternes.
4. Fannie, married James Davis.
5 Battle, married Rebecca Miller.
36
Digitized by VjOOQIC
BRYAN
6 John Gilson, married Pollie Morris.
John Oilson Bryan lived to be 98 years old. Battle
Bryan and Rebecca Miller had twelve children: Polly,
Susan, John Gilson, Henry M., William, Lewis, Nancy,
Elizabeth, Joseph D., Sally, Jane, Caroline and Ann.
William Lewis Bryan married Sallie Hayes; had eight
children : Julia C, James H., Cora L., Gteorge A., Carrie H.,
Robert K., Bartlett R. and Lewis L.
6 Klinor Bryan, daughter of Morgan, senior married
William Linville. Name appears in many deeds of Augusta
County. They later went to North Carolina and both are
said to have been killed by Indians.
7 Marv (daughter of Morgan), probably married a Mr.
Forbes, as Morgan in his will leaves "to my granddaughter.
Mary Forbes, my great pot of five shillings'*. This could
not be Mary, daughter of his son, Thomas, tas she was not
born until 1769, although she did marry a Mr. Forbes.
WILLIAM BRYAN AND MARY BOONE BRYAN
8 William Bryan, 1733-1781, married 1755, Mary
Boone, sister of Daniel Boone.
William Bryan was also one of the Kentucky pioneers,
and was killed by the Indians in 1781, while defending the
Fort. William and Mary Boone Bryan had' issue :
1 Samuel married 1775, Isabella Hunt, daughter of
Jonathan and Isabella Hunt. Samuel served in the Revo-
lution (Pension Department, Washington).
2 Daniel Boone, married Elizabeth Turner.
3 Sarah, married Col. William Ghinn; moved to
Missouri.
4 William.
5 Phoebe.
6 Hannah.
7 John.
8 Abner.
9 Elizabeth.
10 Mary
The children of Samuel Bryan and Isabella Hunt Bryan
were: (1) Anne, (2) Phoebe. (3) William, (4) Abner, (5)
Luke, (6) Thomas, (7) Sarah, (8} Mary, (9) Daniel, (10)
and (11) Samuel. Luke Bryan, norn November 22, 1784.
married Mary Sanders (daughter of Cap t. John Sanders ana
wife Sarah), had twelve children: Alphonse H., John,
Samuel. Maiy Boone, Elbert W., Dorcas. Apmilda, Jesse,
Joseph McM., William S., James L., and Tnomas N.
37
Digitized by VjOOQIC
NOTABLE SOUTHERN FAMILIES
Daniel Boone Bryan (William, Morgan), born F(4:>. 10,
1758, in Rowan County, North Carolina, died Feb. 27, 1845;
married Elizabeth Turner, and had issue :
i Joseph Bryan.
2 Thomas Bryan, married Mary (Polly) Kay.
3 Loaiis Bryan.
4 William Bryan.
5 Samuel Bryan.
() Daniel Bryan, Elizabeth Bryan (Twins).
7 Sallie Bryan, married William Barr.
8 Phoebe Bryan, married John Womack.
Thomas Bryan (Daniel, William, Morgan), born ,
died 1872, in l^ayette County, Kentucky; marriod 1830 and
had issue:
1 Thomas Bryan, married Mary Barton, of Kansns City.
2 Phoebe Elizabeth Bryan (Thomas, Daniel. William,
Morgan), born 1841, died 1880, in Jessamine Coimly Ken-
tucky; married John J. Cassell, and had issue:
1* Robert Bryan Cassell, marrieds Pearl Hill.
2 Henry Bryan OasselL married Flora Lilterd.
3 Joseph Bryan Oa^sf 11. married Bita Gray.
4 Allie Brvaii Ca^si'll, marrieii Frances Gibsioii.
Robert Bryan Cassell, who married Pearl Hill, had issue:
1 Margar i Iryan <lassi»ll, unniarriud;
2 Henry Bryan Oassell, who married Etta Gray,
had issue:
1 John Cassell, luimarried.
2 Frances Cassell, unmarried.
3 Flora Ijewis Cassell, unmarried.
Allie Bryan Cassell, nmrried Frances Gibson and had
issue :
1 John Cassell, unmarried.
2 Tom Cassell, unmarried.
3 Margaret Cassell, unmarried.
4 Frances Gibson Cassell, unmarried.
9 Thomas Bryan, born 1736, died 1789; served as a
surgeon in the Revolution. He married Hunt, daugh-
ter of ihe Rev. Jonathan Hunt. After the Revolution he
practiced medicine in Mississippi; later relumed lo North
Carolina; had issue:
1 Jesse Bryan, born Nov. 1757, died Jan. 18, 1834.
2 Jonathan, born Oct. 1766, died 1830.
3 Mary, born April 1796, married) Mr. Forbes.
4 Martha, born Aug. 1772, died 1848;'married Stephen
Gano.
38
Digitized by VjOOQIC
BRYAN
5 Morgan Hunt, born Dec. 16, 1774, died Sept. 17, 1843;
married Jan. 17, 1805 Sallie Hunt, born Dec. 15, 1786;
daughter of John Hunt and Margaret Wilson, a sister of
James Wilson, the singer.
6 Thomas, born Jan 6, 1776; never married.
7 William, l>orn Jan. 6, 1776; never maiTied.
The widow of Dr. Thomas Bryan is said 1o have married
for her second husband the Rev. John Gano, 'Fighting
Chaplain of Ihe RevV)lution'\ She moved to Kentucky, with
tiim iu 1792, and was killtnl by a fall fiK)m her horse.
The children of Morgan Hunt Bryan and Sallie Hunt were:
1 Milton E., born D<^c. 1805, died 1892.
2 John H.. born July 1807
3 Cordelia', born March 1810.
4 William W., born Jan. 1811, died 1886.
5 James, b(»rn March 1813.
6 Thomas, born Sept. 1815.
7 Martha, born Sept. 1817.
8 Mary, born March 1821.
10 Sarah (daughter of Morgan), married Francis
Puisen. Deed. Augusta County Records, Vol. HI, p. 318,
July 26, 1753, Frances Puisen (Puisen and Sarah of Rowan
Comity, North Carolina, to John Hinlon, 236 acres on
Muildy Creek. Test. Joseph and John Bryan).
11 Rebecca Bryan, niarried Daniel Boone. Their desc<»nd-
ants will be found in the Boone article. Two sons
were killed by Indians; James while on the way lo Ken-
lucky, and Israel later in a battle wilh the Indians. One
daughter, Jenmm, was carried off by the Indians, but
rescued by her father. She later married Mr. Calloway.
Dr. J. D. Bryan, in his Boon(»-Bryan History, says: **After
Ihe death of James Bryan's wife, his children wei*e raised
by his sister, Rebecca, wife of Daniel Boone, and married
from their home". He also says that James iand Morgan
Bryan were both with the forces at King's Mounlain, 1780.
\MLLIAM BRYAN LINE
Line of \A'illiam Bryan, brother of Morgan Bryan, lu
following this (William* Bi*>aii line we must always keep
in mind the County Divisions' made at different times.
Spotsylvania was the original Western County of Vir-
ginia formed in 1721 by an act of Virginia Legislature *'to
39
Digitized by VjOOQIC
NOTABLE SOUTHERN FAMILIES
exfrnd to the river (Shenandoah) beyond the high moun-
tain's**. It has one Parish called St. George's. In 1730, this
was divided into- St. G(H)rge's and St. Mark's. The latter
lying in the upper part of the (iOunty became in 1734
Orange County. In 1738, Augusta OouJily was taken from
Orange, also Gulnepper and Madison, Rapimhanock from
Oulp<*pper in 183'i. Hocklyridge, Botetourt and Roanoke
Wi're «all ai one time })arl of Augusta.
Old William Bryan is in one of the fn*st deeds of
Spotsylvania County, but always spoken of as Orange
County. His son, William, lived in then August*i County,
though his home was down on the Roi^noke near Salem
(now Roanoke County), and his will is now on file in
Botetourt County.
IHrst Generation i)i America
In McKenzie's Colonial Families, Vol. VI, we find:
William Smith Bryan i, a landholder in Ireland, i)robf»-
bly County Clare, at the time t)f the British invasion imd^r
(iromwell, and for taking the side of Ireland was trans-
ported as a rebellious subject in i(>50 to American (Colonies
with his family, goods and chattels, consisting of a ship
load. He settled in Gloucester County, Virginia; haJ dev.ii
sons; Morgan Bryan in Norfolk County in 1693, thought to
have been a son.
Francis Bryan 2, the old(*sl son, had Morgan, born 1671,
died 1763, age 02 y<»ars; William, born 1685; wife Margaret.
Third Generation
William Bryan 3, and wife, Margaret, lived at Bally-
coney, (bounty Down, Ireland. They were Presbyterians.
The town of Bryansford near by is said to have been nani'^d
for some of this family. William and Margaret Bryan sen I
their little son John, into the woods to cut a stick to mak » a
handle for a hook u-sed in weaving, and he was arrested for
poaching. After much trouble and expense, his father
got him clear, and immediately sailed for America, wh( re,
as he said, "timber was free and there were no constable s'\
Tliis was in the ye'ar 1718. They first settled in New Jersey
or Pennsylvania. Morgan Brj'an (his brother), was iii
(Chester County, Pennsylvania, as early as 1719, where he
married Martha Strode.
About 1745, William Bryan and his sons, James and
David, either a son or a brother but thought to be a brother,
diet! 1767, wife Elizabeth, removed to the Staunton River
in ()»resent) Roanoke County. They with others, were the
40
Digitized by VjOOQIC
BRYAN
first white settlers in that locality.
William Bryan settled at the place called Lake Springs,
Avhcre he died at the age of 104 years (1685-1789), and
I>avid at Big Lick, both near Roanoke City.
Prior to the Staunton River settlement, William Bryan
lived ill the part of Spotsylvania County that in 1730 was
called Orange County. Here in 1733, March 5, he'^ives to
Philip Bush eight hundred pounds of tobacco and 102 acres
in St. Mark's Parish.
David Bryan also witnesses a will, March 11, 1733, and
David's wife, Elizabeth, witnesses deed, 1733, Aug. 2.
William Bryan's daughter, Mary, married Philip Bush
(ho died 1772, son of John and Margaret Bush), and their
tson \\'i]liam, born 1746, went to Kentucky with the Bryans
and Bjx.nes. David Bryan moved to North Carolina on ac-
count of being troubled with the Indians. The children of
William and Margaret Bryan were:
1 John Andrew, born prior to 1717, died 1799; married
Mary Morrison.
2 James.
3 William, married Margaret Watson.
4 Mary, married Philip Bush; died 177::^. Philip Busli
kepi tavern near Winchester.
Fourth Generation
William Bryan and wife, Margaret Watson, also settled
on Roanoke River soon after. He was known as ^William
Brvan of Roanoke'. Their children were :
' 1 William, died 1806.
2 John.
3 James, married Elizabeth Vineyard : had Andrew and
Alexander.
4 Catherine, married Samuel Cole.
5 Daughter married Andrew Lewis. (See Deed).
6 David.
7 Daughter, married, first, Martin; second, Boyd.
William, James and David Bryan were in the feevolu-
lion. William was a Captain. He came into possessicwi of
David Bryan's place at Big Lake, while James inherited his
father's place at Lake Springs.
Some of the descencmnts of William Bryan settled in
Mason County, West Virginia. The Post oliice of Bryan
^^'as doubtless named for some of them.
James moved to North Carolina then to Kentucky, and
liis son, Alexander and wife, Elizabeth Parker moved from
^Montgomery County to Putnam County, Indiana, in 1834.
flad the following children :
41
Digitized by VjOOQIC
NOTABLE SOUTHERN FAMILIES
1 George, married Eliza.
2 James.
3 Harvey.
4 Barton.
5 Nancy, married Jacob Cox.
6 Ellen, married Parker Goffmon.
7 Alexander S., born Sept. 24, 1824, in Montgomery
Gounly, Kentucky, married Jane Farrow.
Augusta Gounty Records, Vol. Ill, p. 97.
Will of Darrick Brj^i, of Roanoke, Dec. 18, 1770. Ev.
wife, and Brother^ William.
Daughter, Mary.
Son, William.
Son, David.
Provcul March 18, 1767, by Barnes and William Bryan.
Elizabeth (her mark).
Augusta Gounty Records, Vol. 1, p. 135.
Elizabeth Bryan, Ex. of David Bryan, May 25, 1767.
In 1771, widow had married John Bowman.
Augusla Gounty Records, Vol. II, p. 223. Prior to 1771.
William Bryan owned 400 acres on Roanoke River near
Salem, divided between sons William and James. James
sold to Andrew Lewis, and moved to Mason Gounty. Wil-
liam Bryan, junior, died 1806. James had a son, Andrew.
Will of William Bryan, of Roanoke, in Botetourt
Gounty, wife Elizabeth (second wife), sons, William, James
and John; diaughter, Catherine Gole.
Augusla Gounty Records, Vol. I, p. 61.
Road ordered, William Bryan, overseer, from William
Garravans plantation to William Bryan's on Roan Oak.
Workers: William Brvan. junior, and! John Bryan, same
p. 123.
1765, Willam Bryan exempt from Gounty fLevy (which
moans he was an old man), Oct. 11, 1765. William Bryan,
senior, to William Bryan, junior, son of William, stMiior,
133 acres on Roanoke River, adjoining James Love.
John Andrew Bryan, and wife Mary Morrison, moved
to Burden Gounty, near Fairfield, Rockbridge County
(which was founded in 1737), about the same lime that
William and Margaret Watson Bryan moved to Staunton
River settlement. This John Bryan is thought to have been
at the battle of Great Meadows, 1754, Gaplain Peter Hogg's
Gompany. (Virginia Gounty Records, Vol. II, p. Ill, Au-
gusta Gounty. *Aflep Battle of Great Meadows, returned to
Captain Stobo's Gompany, 1754. Men fit for duty, John
Bryan').
After living a few years at the Borden Colony, John
42
Digitized by VjOOQIC
BRYAN
Andrew and Mary and family proceeded to the Staunton
River, where 'he Jbecame owner of land upon a part of
which Salem is now situated. He left the Staunton River
in 1863-4, traded his lan<f for a pair ef cart-w^heels, and
moved with his femily to (present) Campbell Goimty, Va.,
Here he bought 329 acres of Richard Stith and 439 acres
of Benjamin Arnold. On the last named tracrt, he at once
erected a bark hut about two miles Southeast of Rust-
burg, and later buili a house farther down on the other
branch (Molly's Greek). A lot on the place waB used as a
muster ground for many years after the Revolution) .
The children of John Andrew and Mary Morrison Bryan
were:
1 William, born 1774, married Mary.
2 Andrew Morrison, born April 25, 1748, died April 20,
1821 ; married' Mary Akers.
3 Mary, born May 27, 1750, died young.
4 Margaret, born March 14, 1752, married first, Daniel
Mitchell; second, Patrick Gibson.
5 John, married Gatherine Evans.
6 Jane, born May 16, 1761, married John Davison.
7 Agnes, born August 9, 1763, married first, John
Akers; second, Reuben Bagby.
8 Gatherine, born Oct. 21, 1765.
Fifth Generaiion
William Bryan, son of John Andix;w, received from his
lather the tr*act of 320 acres on Molly's Greek, but in 1779
sold his land' and moved to Bedford County, where he died
without issue.
Andrew Morri&on, married Mary Akers, received fi'om
his father, John A. Bryan, in 1773, 156 acres of land. He
probably sold his land on Molly's Greek to his brother,
John, and he and his wife were living in North Carolina
when their youngest son, David, was born, Oct. 24, 1793.
A few years later they returned to Campbell County, Vir-
ginia. It is thought he was in the war of the Revolution.
Daniel and Margaret Bryan Mitchell kept tavern near
Bedford County line. After Margaret married Patrick Gib-
son they moved to Rockbridge County.
John, son of John Andrew, married Catherine Evans,
was a large man; weighed at death about 350 pounds. He
was in the Revolutionary War in Battles of Eufaw Springs,
Guilford Court House, Wax^ham and Yorktown. He owned
and lived on his father's place in Campbell County; was
prosperous for the times.
43
Digitized by VjOOQIC
NOTABLE SOUTHERN FAMILIES
Jane Bryan married John Davidson. They were well off
and owned slaves.
Sixth Generation
The children of Andrew Morrisan Bryan and Mary
Akers were:
1 John, married Rebecca.
2 Elizabeth, married John Page.
3 William Akers, married.
4 Morrison, married 1805, Rhoda Johnson. Rhoda J.
Bryan married second, Peyton Short.
5 James, married Mary Johnson.
6 Mary, married George Evans.
7 Thomas, married' Mary Bryan.
8 David, born North Carolina, Oct. 24, 1793, married
Mildred Johnson.
The children of John Bryan (son of Jobn A. Bryan) and
Catherine Evans, were:
1 Rees, married first, Bridget Evans; second, Mrs.
Elizabeth J»asper.
2 Marj^, married Thamas Bryan f cousins) .
3 Bridiget, married Robert Russell.
4 Agnes, married Ephriam Gardner.
5 John, marriedi Elizabeth Richardson Gec)rgt\
6 Oatherine, married Henry Robinson.
7 Nancy, married William Walthall Dinv^iddie.
BRIEN, OF NORTH CAROLINA
*'At tlio time Ireland was divided into small n>onarchie8
Munster was the house of the O^Briens, and one comf)etitor
for the crown was John O'Brien. (It is said an account of
him is found in Grimshaw's History of England). Some
time during the latter part of the Seventeenth Genturj^ his
Ave sons, who were imder political proscription on account
of the rebellion, left their native land for America. Their
names were Edward. John, William. Hardy and Council,
who died at sea. Edward was the eloest, and brought with
him the coronet, which was his birthright. They landed at
New Berne, prior t»o 1700. They soon dropped the *0' and
wrote the n^ajiie 'Bryan' ".
They worked with tar, and before many yeans had pur-
chased slaves and invesbed in sea-going vessels.
Edward, the eldest, married Anne, widow, andi died in
1746. His will is dated Jan. 28, 1745, proved May 9, 1746:
Gives son, John Bryan 220 acres of land; gives son Wil-
liam,, 300 acres of land ; gives son, Edward, a lot in New
Berne; gives wife, Ann Bryan, one plantation. Ex. wife
44
Digitized by VjOOQIC
BRYAN
Anne, Brother Hardy and Lewis Bryan.
Family records give his children as :
1 John, married Rebecca Martin.
2 Penelope, married firs<, Levin Lane; second, Daniel
Yates.
3 Edward, never married.
1 John Bryan, eldest son of Edward and Ann Hand
Bryan, married Rebecca Martin, "an amiable, good woman,
of high family". John Bryan was a Colonel in the Revo-
lution (D. A. R. Lineage Book, Vol. IX, p. 320), died May
25, 1801, in Jones County, North Carolina. Issue:
1 John, married first, Mary Tootle; second, Ann
Zilpcdi, daughter of William and Susan Bryan.
2 Edward, married Elizabeth Ellington.
3 James, married Widow Exum ; no issue.
4 William, married Martha Hodges.
5 Joseph, married Eleanor Evans.
6 Susan, never married.
7 Mary Bush, maried Richard Grice, Jr.
8 Elizabeth, married Elijah Bryan, a cousin on the
mothers side. TBieir fathers had the same name and
same Irish descent (probably cousins).
2 John Hill Bryan, married Elizabeth Harrison (daugh-
ter of William) Nov. 27, 1782. He was born 1761; was
a member of the House of Commons from Jones County.
North Carolina, 1788. Took part in the Revolution, Captain
Jones Gompanj^ Militia. Moved to Georgia about 180K
where he died m 1826. Issue:
1 Penelope, born 1784; married John Coffee.
2 Edward, born 1786; married Susan Horn.
3 John, born 1788; no record.
4 Mary, born 1790; married Shadrach Atkinson.
5 William, born 1792, died infancy.
6 James, tiorn 1790, died infancy.
7 Joseph, born 1795; married Lucy Warner; son,
Lucius p]., married Mrs. Emma Bryan Dabney.
8 Susan born 1797, married Hiran Atkinson.
Fred, born 1798, died infancy.
10 Elizabeth, born 1798, died infancy.
11 Hardy, born 1799, married first, Martha Wyche;
second, Maria Wyche.
3 Penelope, daughter of John and Rebecca Martin
Bryan, married first, James Monlford. Issue :
1 Bryan Montford.
45
Digitized by
Google
NOTABLE SOUTHERN FAMILIES
2 Elizabeth Montford.
3 Rebecca Montford.
4 James Montford.
She married seoond, Fred Margate, and had issue:
5 Jiohn Margate, married Elizabeth Zilpah Bryan,
daughter of Joseph.
6 Penelope.
7 Fri^deriek.
8 Penie.
9 Durant.
Married, third, Bothwick Gillespie. No issue.
4 William (3), married Susan Marrison, sister of Mrs.
John Mill Bryan. Issue:
1
John.
2
William.
3
Edward.
4
Frederick.
5
Joiab.
6
Nancy.
/
Elizabeth.
8
Zilpah, married John Bryan.
9
Penelope, married Joseph Green
10
Rebecca.
5 Frederick, married Susan Margate. Issue :
1 Elizabeth.
2 John Council.
6 Ann Zilpah, married first, Richard Grice( son of
Richard Grice and Mrs. Anna Mill Slade, widow). Issue:
1 Nancy Grice, married Bryan Grimes, of Pitt County,
a cousin.
2 Richard, married Mary Bush Bryan, daughter of
Edward, a cousin. She married, second, Jonn Bryan, son
of Edward and Susannah.
7 Joseph Bryan, married, first, Elizabeth Margate.
Issue :
1 Zilpah, married John Margrave.
2 Elizabeth.
3 Louis.
Joseph married second. Susan Margate, cousin of first
wife. Issue :
4 Nancy, married Isaac Mathway.
5 John.
6 Polly.
7 Edward.
46
Digitized by VjOOQIC
BRYAN
8 Peter.
9 William.
10 Joseph.
Married third, a widow. Mrs. Parsons. Issue:
11 Frederick.
2 Penelope Hryan, daughter of Edward and Anne Hand
Bryan, married first, Lf>vin Lane. Issue:
1 Ijevin.
'^ Ezekif^l.
3 Polly.
4 Penelope, married first, \\'illiam Bush (son of
Hardy Bush and Katharine Frank) ; married second, Need-
ham Whitfield. (Fourth wife).
5 Klizal)Mth, married second, Daniel Yates. Issue:
(> Nancy Yales.
8 Leacli Yates.
Fourth Generation — Children of Edward and Susannah
1 John Bryan (Edward, John, Edward), son of Ed-
ward and Susannah Blackshear Bryan, married first, Mary
Tootle; married second, Ann Zilplah Bryan, his cousin,
daughter of William and Susan Harrison Bryan; only
record one son.
1 John T, married Mary Armistead.
2 Edward (son of Edward and Susannah), marri(»d
Eliza Ellington. Issue:
1 Susan, married David Blackshear, son of Gen. David
Blackshear of Georgia.
2 John (given as marrying Zilpah Bryan).
3 Mary Harriet, died infancy.
4 Fanny, Tnarri(»d first, Htnify King; second Washing-
ton Ghapman.
5 Mary, married Dr. L. L. Newsom.
6 Louisa.
7 Ellington B.
8 James Wni., died infancy.
3 William Bryan (son of Edward and Susannah),
married Martha Hodges. Issue:
1 Elizabeth, niarri«Hl W. J. Rdhinson.
2 Mary, married (]. W. Davis.
3 Blackledge, never married.
4 Mariha, marrii'd John W. Pooser.
5 Josej)hine, married Dr. J. 0. Lewis.
i Joseph Bryan (son of Edward and Susannah),
marri(»d Eleanor Evans. Issue:
4/
Digitized by
Google
NOTABLE SOUTHERN FAMILIES
1 James, married Marcissa Hayes.
2 Susan P., married Dr. Frank Wakefleld.
3 Mary, married Dr. Wm. Standifer.
5 Mary Bush (daughter of Edward and Susannah)^
nmrried her cousin, Richiard Grice (son of Ann Zilpah
Bryan Grice, sister of Edward). Issue:
1 Frederick Grice, married Mary Wardlaw.
After death of Mary Bush Bryan, Richard Grice married
Martha Cook. Issue : * Two daughters.
6 Elizabeth Bryaji (daughter of Edward and Susan-
nah^, married Elijah Bryan, a first cousin through their
molners (Blackshear). Their fathers had the same name.
Edward Bryan, born 1759, Elijah's father, was a son of
Gol. Joseph Bryan and Sarah Maule. He married Penelope
Blackshear (sister of Susannah) .
1 Harriet, married James E. Heam.
2 Joseph, married Harriet Hamisler.
3 Hamilton, married Christiana Baemes.
4 Frank.
5 Penelope, married J. M. Erwin.
Georgia, married Erwin.
7 Annie Laura.
8 Lizzie.
1) Robert.
10 Elijah.
11 Family, married Louis H. Smith.
Col. Joseph Brjan was a son of either William or John,
the twt) brothers of whom we have no record.
Fourth Generation — Children of John Hill Bryan
1 Penelope Bryan, born Sept. 23, 1784, daughter of
John Hill Bryftn and Elizabeth Harrison, married Gen.
Jnshu« (>)tTre, born in Virginia 1780. Issue:
1 Samh Ann. married Mark Wilcox,
t^ Joshua, married Emily Church.
3 Peter Harrison, married Susana A. Rodgers.
4 John married' first Rebecca Wilcox; second, Mar-
cflla Gritrin; third, Mary E. Wanmack.
Christopher C, married Mary Rodgers.
iS Susah, married John Bryan, a cousin.
7 Andrew J., married Susah Church.
8 Hill Bryan, married Mary Church.
10 Hardy Bryan, born Dec. 1799 (yooingest son of JohM
Hill and Elizabeth Bryan) married firsl, Martha Wyche;
married second, 'M«aria Wyche, Aug. 5, 1824 — (sisters:
daughters of Col. Littleton Wyche and Susannah Mitchell
48
Digitized by
Google
BRYAN
Wyche) . Issue by second wife :
1 Leon, barn 1825, died 1857; unmarried.
2 Caroline, mairied first, Mr. H-all ; second, Gillespie.
3 Magnolia E., married George M. Brannon.
4 Iredelle E., married Mary Edwards.
5 H»ardy, Jr., never married.
6 Gouriland.
7 Louise B., married William Galahin.
8 Rudolph, never married.
9 Baltimore, died young.
10 Idella, married Needham Bryan Wbitfleld.
Family records say that Edward Bryan, son of Edward,
Sr., never marri-ed^ and no imention is made of the son,
William, who received 300 acres of land. The will of one
William Bryan has been found in Bertie County (North
Carolina History and Genealogy Register, Vol. Ill, p. 167),
dated December 12, 1746, proved June Court, 1747, mentions
wife Anne; sons William, Lewis, John, Jesse, daughter
Elizabeth and Ann. Ex., Ann Bryan, wife, Joseph Brycm,
brother and- WilMam Bryan, son. This William could not
have been one of the five brothers, as he mentions a brother,
Joseph. These two are probably sons of either William or
John, of whom we have no record.
Joseph, or Col. Joseph Bryan, born about 1730, married
about 1753, Sarah Maule, daughter of Dr. Patrick Maule.
Had issue:
1 George.
2 William.
3 Edward, born 1759, died 1825; married Penelope
Blackshear; moved to Twigs County, Georgia. Has tomb-
stone says he served in the Revolution at the age of sixteen.
4 Lewis.
5 Mary, died unmarried.
6 Sarah.
7 Elizabeth, married Mr. Grist.
8 Gennett, married Mr. Dawson.
9 Ann, married WilHam Grimes.
The line of Hardy Bryan, one of the Ave brothers, is
given in McKenzie's Colonial Families, Vol. I, p. 53, as
follows :
"The Bryan family is Irish in origin. Col. Hardy Bryan
emigrated to America at the beginning of the Eighteenth
Century from Munster, Ireland. Settled near New Berne,
North Carolina; married Mrs. Bonner Worsely (other
it'ecords give her name as Mrs. Reynolds, formerly Sarah
Bonner). Had issue:
49
Digitized by
Google
NOTABLE SOUTHERN FAMILIES
1 William (of whom below), born 1730, died 1810.
2 Mary, married flrst, Mr. Hatch ; second, Mr. Tooley.
3 Thomas, died 1760; married Mrs. Rachel Lavender.
4 Hardy, married Mrs. Hatch.
5 Nathan, married 1773; flrst, Winifred Bryan (daugh-
ter of Needham) ; married second, Nancy Reynolds.
6 Isaac, married first, Mrs. Cox; second, Mrs. Herri tage
(Rachel Whitford — her fourth husband).
7 Lewis, married first, Mrs. Saper; second, Mrs. Hatch
Bryan.
Wheeler, p. 221^ says: "Hon. Nalhan Bryan was a man
of piety and usefulness. In 1799, represented this County
(Jones, from Oravan), in House of Commons, in 1794 he
represented New Beriie District in Congress. He died in
Philadelphia, 1798, while in Congress, and was buried in
the Baptist Meeting House Yard".
William Bryan, born 1730 died 1810 (see D. A. R.
Lineage Book, Vol. XLIX, p. 446); married three wives;
flrst, Miss Green; second, Mrs. Respas; third, Mrs. McKay.
He was a large land owner and prominent patrio'f. Repre-
sented Craven Coiunty in the Hillsboro Assembly of 1775;
representative to Provisional Congress, 1776; Lieut-
Co. of Minutemen; appointed Brig-Gen. 1776, by Conti-
nenlal Congress. Gen. William Bryan was a member of
the House of Assembly from Craven County 1780-83.
Issue :
1 Holland, married Mr. Mastin.
2 Sarah, married Mr. Green.
3 Nancy, married, flrst, Allen; second, Lane; third,
Mastin.
4 Elizabeth, married Frederick Lane.
5 Green, married Nancy Blackledge.
6 Hardy, married Mrs. Swan.
7 Eleanor, married Mr. Wadsworth.
8 Susan, married flrst, Armstrong; second. Mince.
9 Margaret, died unmarried.
Other records give a son, John, who married 1796-7,
Elizabeth Oliver, and had a son, James, who married
Rachel Heritage, of Needham-Bryan line.
NEEDHAM BRYAN
That there were Bryans in North Carolina before tin
flve O'Briens or Bryans landed at New Berne, has been
proven by early records. In the History of Halifax County
^W. C. Allen), we flnd a list of the early land holders whose
aescendants are still living in the County, and among them
is Thomas Bryan, whose grant was between 1720-30. This
50
Digitized by VjOOQIC
BRYAX
may have been a son of the Thomas Bryan whose will is
dated March 13, 1709-10, and gives his friend as Benjamin
West.
Also we And (Habersham Ool. Ga., Vol II), that **John
Oray, from Scolland, m^iried Anne Bryan, in Berlin
<)ouiity, North Carolina," and liheir graud^daug^hler, Kliza-
beth Gray, married William Bryan, grandson of NtH'-dham
Bryan.
These early Bryans were the cause of Needham Bryan
leaving Virginia in 1722 and settHng in Bertie County,
North Carolina. They are said to have been living in North
Oarolina as early as 1653
Two Bryans, brothers, William and James (some rec-
ords give John), settled in Isle of Wight County. James
wets a large land owner, in 1683 he had a grant of 315
acres, in 1689-, 762 acres and in 1702, 100 acres more. No
record of descendants.
The fact thiat no record of ihe arrival of this William
Bryan can be found in early records, makes it seem possible
that he was one of the eleven sons of William Smith Bryan,
in Virginia 1650.
William Bryan, married in Ireland, Alice Needham, said
to be a daughter of ihe Lord of Kilmorey. They were
Kving in Isle of Wight County in 1688, and their son, Need-
ham, was born there Feb. 11, 1690.
Needham Bryan, bom 1690, in Virginia, married Nov.
16, 1711, Annie Rambcau, and in 1722 moved to North
Carolina and settled on a farm on Albeonarle Sound, Bertie
County, where he died in 1770, at the age of 80 years.
Annie Rambeau Bryan died March 16, 1730, and Need-
hiam married a second wife, Susannah Horrell, and a third
wife in 1752, Sarah Woodward, who survived him.
Issue by first wife, Annie Rambeau:
1 Rachel, bom June 10, 1723; married William Whil-
neld.
2 William, born Oct. 31, 1724, died 1785; married 174i
Elizabeth Smith.
3 Needham, born 1726, died 1784; married 1749, Nancy
Smith.
Elizabeth and Nancy Smith were daughters of John
Smith (the Smiths were in Isle of Wight County in 1622)
and Elizabeth Whitfield, married 1700. She was the daugh-
ter of Matthew Whitfield. His son, William Wbitfif^Id,
bom about 1690, married Elizabeth Goodman, and their
son, William, born May 29, 1715, in Bertie County, North
Carolina, was the husband of Rachel Bryan.
51
Digitized by VjOOQIC
NOTABLE SOUTHERN FAMIUES
1 William, bom June 1743, died March 1817; married
Hester Williams.
2 EHizabeth, born 1745; married 1765, Alexander
Smith.
3 Sarah, born April 16, 1747; married 1769, Col Joseph
Oreer
4 Bryan, born Feb. 19, 1754, died Jan. 3, 1817; married
first 1780, Nancy Bryan (daughler of Need'ham, Jr);
second, 1798, Winifred Bryan (daughter of Hon. Nathan
Bryan.
5 Charily, born April 1756, died 1818; married 1771,.
David Smith.
6 Needham, born Feb. 20, 1758, died April 6, 1812.
7 Rachel, born April 16, 1760; married first, McCabe;
second, James Whitfleld; third, John Hentage; fourth.
Isaac Bryan (son of Col Hardy Bryan).
8 Mary, bom May 8, 1763, married 1785-6, Kedar
Bryan, second wife (son of Needhaim).
9 Rev. Lewis, born June 23, 1765, married first, Char-
lotte Moore Bryan (daughter of Needham Bryan, Jr.) ;
married second,Tabitha Atkinson; married third, Patsy
Hinton Bryan and widow of John Bryan (son of William
Bryan and Elizabeth Smith).
William Bryan, second ohild of Needham Bryan and
Annie Rambeau, born in Bertie County, North Carolina,
Oct. 31, 1724, died 1785; married in Johnston County, 1744,
Elizabeth Smith, daughter of John Smith and Elizabeth
Whitfield. Issue:
1 Louis Brv^an, born Nov. 4, 1745, Johnston County,.
North Carolina;' married about 1769, Nancy Hinton (daugh-
ter of Maj. John Hinton and Sally Smith) . N«o record.
2 William Bryan, bom July 1747, died Sept. 1800, in
Bertie County; married Elizabeth Gray (daughter of Wil-
liam Gray and Frances Lee. William Cfray's mother was,
Anne Bryan of the Colony, 1653).
3 Arthur, born May 12, 1749.
4 Elizabeth, born May 28 1751.
5 Hardy, born June 4, 1/53 (the name Hardy shows,
some connection with the O'Brien line).
6 Blake, born June 12, 1759.
7 Esther, born June 22, 1760
8 Susannah, born Nov. 25, 1763.
9 John, born Jan. 14, 1765.
William Bryan was a member of the Provincial Con-
gress 1775, was among the otricers appointed by the Oon-
vention which organized the militia.
52
Digitized by VjOOQIC
BRYAN
2 William Bryan (William-Needham), born Juy 1747,
tlied Sept. 1800; married Elizabeth Gray. Issue:
1 Francis Lee Bryan, bom 1779, died at Windsor,
North Oarolina, 1850.
2 William Bryan, born March 5, 1781, died youn^.
3 Elizabeth, born March 26, 1783, died July 30, 1840.
4 Ann Gray, born Dec. 5. 1784, died Oct. 12, 1864.
5 Jane Smith, born April 24, 1786, died Feb. 18, 1818.
6 Susannah Bush, boi*n April 11, 1791.
7 John Gray, bom 1796, died Oct. 31, 1830.
8 John Stevens, bora April 1797, died 1848, in New
York.
9 James bonis, bom Aug. 6. 1799, died Nov. 26, 1856.
Ann Gray Bryan married 1808. Sam Hyman, of Bertie
Oounty, had Francis Lee, Elizabetn, John, Samuel, Susan
and William.
Jane Smith Brmn married 1812, Peter Boyd Martin;
issue: Robert C, Elizabeth G.^ Susan B., and Mary.
John Stevens Bryan, mfarried) Loicy Haywood, of Ral-
eigh; issue: Janet, Lucy, Eleanor, Elizabetn, William and
John S., Jr.
3 Arthur Bryan (William-Needham) , born May 12,
1749; nmrried about 1780, Miss McGullen, of Johnstown
County; moved to Twiggs Oounty, Georgia, 1800. Issue:
Only one son :
1 John Arthur Bryan.
4 Elizabeth Bryan (William-Needham), born May 28,
1751; married Dec. 20, 1770, Col. Josiah Sasser. Issue:
1 Lewis Sasser.
2 Blake Sasser.
3 William Sasser.
4 Mary Sasser, born 1775; married Aug 28, 1792,
William Stevens, issue:
1 Henry, born 1798; married Mary Bass.
2 Josiah, born 1795; married Margaret Melton.
3 Edmund, bom 1798.
MasTv Sasser Stevens, married second, her cousin, Ben-
jamin Bryan, son of Needham III, and Sally Hinton. They
moved to Georgia in 1818. Issme:
4 Benjamin Bryan, Jr., born North Carolina, 1801.
5 William Bryan.
6 Rose Bryan married William Boynton.
7 Louis.
8 Penelope Bryan, married Joseph Boynton.
9 Algernon S., married Sarah Oliver.
Elizabeth Bryan Sasser, widow of Gol. Josiah Sasser,
53
Digitized by VjOOQIC
NOTABLE SOUTHERN FAMILIES
married 1783, Col. William Blackman; had:
5 Elizab^^fh B. Blackmail, born 1784, died 1811;
married Isaac Williams.
5 Hardy Bryan (William-Needham), born June 4^
1753; married 1777, Winifred MoGuUers of Johnston
County. Issue :
1 William, born Sept. 10, 1779.
2 Had'dy, born Aug. 10, 1781
3 Matthew, born Dec. 1783.
4 Gen. Harry, born May 7, 1786.
5 David, born Dec. 1790.
6 John Gray, born 1792.
Gen. Harry Bryan, born 1786, married 1815, Susan
Blackman; had William Hardy Susan, Joseph, John and
James. David Bryan, born 1/90, (married the widow of
Edwin Smith; had: Washington, Needham and Harry.
6 Blake Bryan (William-Needham), born June 12,.
1759; married 1790, Elizabeth Blackshear of Jones County.
North Carolina (she was born Sept. 16, 1765, daughter or
Joseph Blackshear and Oatherine Franks; widow Bush).
Issue :
1 Mary Bryan, bom 1792; married 1814 Maj. Ezekii*!
Wimb(Tley.
2 Elizabeth, born Dec. 9, 1795; married in Georgia^
1814, Joel Walker.
3 Joseph, born 1798, married in Georgia, 1819, Mary
Walker.
4 Blake, Jr., died young.
7 Esther Bryan (William-Needlham), born North Caro-
lina, 1700; married about 1780, Jonathan Smith, her cousin.
Issue :
1 Elizabeth, born 1787, married 1802, Nathaniel Lane.
2 Esther B., never married.
8 Susannah Bryan (William-Needham), born 1763;
married John Bush, of Jones County, moved tolGeorgia.
Issue :
1 David, 1784.
2 Elizabeth, born 1785; married 1805, James Tooke.
3 Zilpah, married Mr. Baker.
9 John Bryan (William-Needham), born Jan. 1765;
married 1795, Patsy Hinton (daughter of Col. Sam Hinton
and Delilah Hunter. Gol. Sam Hinton was a brother of CoL
John Hinlon). She was born July 25. 1775.
1 Bythan, born 1796; married 1825, Julia Smith,
daughter of Maj. Sam Smith, Jr.
2 Nancy, born 1798; married 1827, James Hinton
Smith, soil of Edward Smith and Temperance Hinton.
54
Digitized by VjOOQIC
BRYAN
After John Bryan's death, Patsy Hinton Brj^an married
R^v. I^wis Whitfield, sun of Rachel Bryan and William
WhitfieldL
3 Needham Bryan, Jr., third and Ictst child of Needham
Bmin and Annie Rambeau, bom Bertie Oounty, 1726, died
1784; married Nancy Smith (daughter of John Smith and
EKzabeth Whilfleld). Issue:
1 Needham III, born 1750.
2 Kedar, born 1752.
3 Winifred, bo«i 1754.
4 Nancy, bom 1756.
1 Needham (Needham-Needham). born 1750, died
1798; married 1768, when 19 years of age, Sallie Hinton
(daughter of Maj. John Hinton and Sallie Smith). Had
Issue :
1 Leonard, bom 1769; married Eli25abeth Green,
daughter of CJol. Joseph Green and Sarah Whitflld. Had:
1 Needham Green Bryan, born 1795, died 1837.
2 Elizabeth Green Bryan.
3 Daughter.
Sallie Hinton Bryan, married second, Probest Collier.
2 CHement, born Oct. 13, 1770, died 1839; married Edith
Smith, born Dec. 1772 (daughter of Ool David Smith and
Charity Whitfield). Issue:
1 Sarah Hinton Bryan, born 1793.
2 Mary S. Bryan, born 1795.
3 Charity Bryan, born April 30, 1798, died 1841;
married 1816, 0. P. Cheatham.
4 Polly Bryan, born 1800; married John Rains.
5 Edith Bryan, born 1802, died' 1843; married Martin
BrouTi.
6 Judge Leonard Bryan, born Oct. 13, 1804, died Aug.
15, 1887; married Eliza Wyche.
7 Needham Bryan, born Aug 27, 1806, died 1841;
Married Martha Battle.
8 Ann Brj^an, born Dec. 1808; married William
Ingraham.
9 Grazella, born 1811; married Jefferson Hines.
10 Eimmeline, born 1814; married Mr. Watts.
11 David, born 1816; married Nancy Battle.
3 Benjamin Bryan, born North Carolina 1771 ; married
June, 1800, Mary Sasser Stevens, widow of William,
Stevens. Issue :
1 Benjamin Bryan, Jr.. bom North Carolina, 1801.
2 Wilham Bryan.
3 Rose Bryan; married William Boynton.
4 Louis Bryan.
55
Digitized by VjOOQIC
NOTABLE SOUTHERN FAMILIES
5 Penelope Bryan; married Joseph Boynton.
6 Algernon S Bryan; married Sarah Oliver.
4 Sallie Bryan, born 1773; married 1793, Jack Hinton.
Needham Bryan, married* second, 1780, Charlotte Moore,
daughter of Col. Joseph Moore. Had:
5 Gharlolfte Moore Bryan, born April 1785, died 1808;
married Louis Whitfield (his first wife).
2 Kedar Bryan (Needham-Needham), born 1752;
married about 1781, Elizabeth Smith (daughter of Alex-
ander Smith and Elizabeth Whitfield). Issue:
1 John, born 1784; married Eleanor Torrence. Had:
Eliza, Eleanor, Susan, Thomas K., John A. and Kedar.
Ked'ar Bryan married seoond, 1786, Mary Whitfield.
Issue :
2 Rachel, b€fm 1781 ; married 1805. Gibson Sloane.
Kedar Bryan., married third, 1793, Betsy Jones. No
issue; married fourth, 1800, Nancy Dickson. Had issue:
3 Needham.
4 Kedar.
5 Robert.
6 Nancy.
7 Catherine.
8 Elizabeth.
3 Winifred Bryan (Needham-Needham), born 1754;
married 1773, Hon. Nathan Bryan (son of Col. Hardy
Bryan). He died in Philadelphia while attending Congress.
Issue :
1 Mary, born 1774; married Gen. William Croom.
2 John, [born 1776; marr'ied Miss Hatch.
3 Niathan, born 1777; married Rachel Whitfield,
daughter of Gen. Bryan Whitfield and Nancy Bryan,
second wife.
4 Winifred, born 1778; married 1797, Gen. Bryan
Whitfield, second wife.
5 Needham. bom 1 781 . .
4 Nancy Bryan (Needham-Needham), born 1756;
married 1780, Gen. Bryan Whitfield. Issue :
1 Bryan Whitfield, Jr., born 1782; married 1810,
Elizabeth Turner.
2 Needham Whitfield died young.
3 Rachel, married first, Nathan Bryan; second, Wil-
liam Herring.
4 Nancy, married 1815, John Cobb.
5 Patsy, married William Ooom.
General Bryan Whitfield, married second, Winifred
Bryan, daughter of Winifred Bryan and Hon. Nathan
Bryan.
56
Digitized by
Google
BRYAN
6 Nathan Bryan Whitfield, born Sept. 1779; married
Betsy Whitfield.
7 Louis Whitfield.
8 George Whitfield.
9 James Bryan Whitfield, married Sally Wooton.
10 Winifred Whitfield, married Richard Groom.
* 11 Mary Ann Whitfield, married Gains Whitfield.
BRIEN— TUBB OF TENNESSEE
William Bryan was a native of Cumberland County,
Pennsylvania. He moved to North Carolina before the
Revolution; married Jane Clarke, either in Pennsylvania op
Morth Carolina. He lived with his famlily in Orange County,
near Hillsboro. Their children were :
1 James, married Anne Lytle. May 11. 1779; moved to
Logan County, Kentucky, 1798; died Oct. 31, 1815. Served
in the Revolution.
2 Elijah, married Miss Marshall.
3 William, died in Virginia. 1835.
4 Thomas, married PoUy Baker, Nov. 20, 1794.
5 David, married Miss Kany.
6 Sallie, married Willieun; Clark, moved to Logan
County, Kentucky.'
7 Hannah, married Joseph White.
9 Nancy, married Samuel Scott.
9 John, had five children, only two known; John and
Cynthia.
James Bryan and' Ann Lytle Bryan had issue :
1 Robert, born Feb. 28,1780, died Jan. 15, 1834; married
Mtoy Guder, of Warren County, Kentucky.
2 William, bom Oct. 1,1781, died
3 Daniel, born Auff. 26, 1783.
4 Jane, born Aug. 9, 1785; married Mr. Mitchell ; moved
to Illinois.
5 Lytle,
6 James, Jr» born June 25, 1792; served in War of
1812; was State Senator, and the town of Briensburg, Mar-
shall County, is naomed for him.
7 Archie, born Oct. 2, 1794.
8 John, born Dec. 16, 1796; married Eliza Marshall;
lived in Louisville.
9 Hannah bom, Jan. 22, died Jan. 26, 1813.
10 Joseph H, born Aug. 4, 1802, died Aug. 23, 1823.
11 Pruis E., born Aug. 4, 1802, died Aug. 23, 1823.
12 Alfred McG., born Aug. 19, 1805; Presbyterian
minister.
57
Digitized by VjOOQIC
NOTABLE SOUTHERN FAMILIES
13 Sally, born , married Mr. Riggs, moved to
Springfield. Illinois.
One of the sons of William and Jane Clark Bryan had a
son, Elisha. Who his father was he failed to tell, but he
spelled the name Brien. We find his marriage to Ann Mil-
ner took place in Campbell County, Virginia, in 1806, and
in 1810 he sold his property to John Hancock, and moved to
Smith, now DeKalb County, Tennessee, where he died about
1834, and is buried near Alexandria. 1
The father of Elisha Brien is saidi to have come to Ten-
nessee also, and his family were the twelfth to settle at
Lebanon, Tennessee.
Elisha Brien had brothers, Elijah, William and David.
David settled in Illinois; William was an old bachelor. He
fought in the Creek Wars under Gen. Jackson, and died
about i864j while on a visit to his bnrfher, David.
The children tjf Elisha Brien and Ann Milner were
born in Tennessee, except the two oldest.
1 John SmWh, 1807-1868, by first wife had issue:
Carlelun, William and John. By second wife, Rochie,
Howard. One daughter, Rochie, who married Gen. Don
Carlos Buell.
2 Paschel Winston, bom May 8, 1809, died Feb. 20,
1881; married first Oct. 16, 1828, Narcissa Purnell Duncan,
five children, all died young but Martha Ann, born Aug. 8,
1829, whio married Eliel Tubb, son of Col. James Tubb.
Paschal W. Hri(Mi, married second, Evelyn Trigg JacksoUj
July 26, 1842; no issue.
3 Manson Milner, 1811-1886, married Polly Tubb,
daughter of Col. James Tubb. She died Oct. 1892. Their
children were, Manson Milner, Jr., lawyer of Nashville;
married' Virginia K. Shoup, James, William A., Robert,
John, Mary and Al'ice.
4 Alfred Watson, born Feb. 14, 1814, died Feb. 28, 1884,
married first, Oct. 27, 1835. in Tennessee. Mary P. Stewart,
one daughter, Mary, 1836-1869, married Dr. Joseph Warren
Maybie. Alfred Watson Brien, married second, in Missis-
sippi, June 1841, Amanda Cowan; no issue.
5 Martha, married Joseph Stuart, died 1863, had four
daugWers and one son.
All these sons of Elisha Brien were lawyers. John
Smith Brien was Judge of the circuit court and chancellor
of the state of Tennessee. Hon. Manson Milner Brien was
Circuit Judge of Davidson County, later lived in Nashville.
Alfred W. Brien was one of the most successful criminal
lawyers of his time. Also served in the Revolution.
After ihe death of Ann Milner Brien, Elisha married in
58
Digitized by VjOOQIC
BRYAN
Tennessee, Sarah Elizabeth Johnston, and had: (1) Elisha,
(2) James, (3) Living&lon,, born March 5, 1820, died ..ay 17,
1904, married Sarah Elizabeth Billingslea, (4) Ellen, (5)
Susan.
TUBE— SOUTH CAROLINA-TENNESSEE
Jiames Tubb of Soulh Carolina married Polly Fisher, and
had eleven c^hildren,
1 Abe Tubb, married Polly Lancaster.
2 John Tubb, marrid Polly Benson.
3 Nicholas Tubb, married Rhoda Lancaster.
4 George Tubb, married Patsy Corley.
5 Samuel Tubb, married Polly Terry.
6 Thomas Tubb, Jr, married Malindia Decker.
7 James Tubb, Jr., married Elizabeth Reynolds.
8 William Tubb, married Minerva
9 Polly Tubb, married liancaster.
10 Didame Tubb, married Isaac Bales.
11 Peggy Tubb, married Barnett.
All these children with their families, except James, Jr.,
moved to Mississippi and to Texas, before the War
Between the States.
James Tubb, Jr., born March 18, 1788, died July 18,
1868, was one of Ihe pioneers and one of the best known
men of DeKalb County, Tennessee. He lived on Smith's
Fork Oreek, east of Alexandria. He owned hundreds of
acres of fine land. He was a colonel in the war of 1812. His
military record and commissi on, are given in Will S. Hale's
History of DeKalb County.
Their child'ren were :
1 Narcissa Tubb, married Mr. Simpson.
2 Julia Tubb, married Mr. A&hworth.
3 Helen Tubb, married Mr. Shurer.
4 Monroe Tubb.
5 John B. Tubb.
6 Caroline Tubb, married Mr. File.
7 Eliel Tubb, married Martha Ann Brien, daughter of
P. W. Brien, had Livingston, James, Brien, Harry and
Oallie.
8 James Tubb.
9 Polly Tubb, married Manson Milner Brien, (son of
Elisha), had M M., Jr., James, William A., Robert, John,
Mary, Elizabeth and Alice.
10 Adelia Tubb.
59
Digitized by VjOOQIC
Digitized by
Google
CARTER
The history of the Virginia Carters begins with
John Garter, who is supposed to have been a Cavalier
and to have "emigrated to Upper NorMk about the year
1649. John Carter removed to Lancaster County, which he
orepresented in the House of Burgesses, and from whence
he was appointed a member of the Governor's Council.
He also received a commission as Colonel Commandant of
the Lancaster Mililia, and as such is said to have entirely
exterminated the Rappahannock Indians.
John Carter built his home on the Rappahannock and
called it by Ihe Indian name "Crotoman". Bishop Meade
relates that when he was a boy the ruins of this old man-
sion, together with its ancient walls and fortress, could be
seen amid the tanglewood.
John Carter also built the original Qhrist Ohurch, which,
rebuilt by his son, is the old^t religious edifice in Virginia.
It is here that the first generations of Garters are buried.
Unfortunately, by the time the "preservation and restora-
tion movement" reached Virginia, decadence and vandalism
had run rife (for years. A tourist visiting the old church
of Lancaster some fifty years ago, writes :
"The walls of dull red brick are little discolored by
time. Entering by one of the massive doors, which are
never locked, we discover an interior with which our
modem figures seem altogether out of keeping. The cruci-
form aisle, flagged with stone, is bordiered by high, square
pews over the tops of which the occupants could behold
only the parson in his lofty cock-pit pulpit well up oinder
the eaves. Three of the aisles terminate in ihe doorways,
and the fourth leads to the chancel which is panneled all
around almost half way up to the groined ceiling. Above
the communion table are two. framed tablets of black can-
vas with the Lord's Prayer, Creed and Commandments
painted in queer letters thereon. The baptismal font of
61
Digitized by VjOOQIC
NOTABLE SOUTHERN FAMILIES
white marble has become separated from its pedestal by the
rusting of the iron dowel which joined them and! now rests
upon me table, its cherub-bedight brim giving it a fanciful
resemblance to Holmes' ancient punchbowP."
At this date the inscriptions on the Carter gravestones,
which have been preserved to history through Bishop Meade,
himself a descendant of John Garter, seem to have been
legible. The epitaph of the first Colonel John Garter in
quaint phraseology informs all who might perchance be
interested that this "Colonial Nat Goodwin" took unto him-
self five wives: Jane, daughter of Mr. Morgan Glynn;
Elinor, ye widow Brocas; Anne, ye daughter of Mr. Cleve
Garter; Sarah, ye daughter of Mr. Gabriel Ludlow; and
lastly, the wife who survived him, Eliz6tbeth Shirley.
The will of Colonel John Carter is still preserved in
Lancaster Oounty, Virginia,' as is also the inventory of his
estate. There is a traditon that the tomb of Colonel Garter
originally bore a carved and mysterious "coat-of-arms," and
that the family silver and linenis were marked with un-
identified monograms. Notwithstanding, *'Cleave" was one
of the beautiful fafmily estates of the Garters, posterity has
not been able to place in the family tree, "Ye Mr. Cleve
Carter" whose daughter became the third wife of Colonel
John, the founder of the Carter family in Virginia. It would
seem that during the lifetime of the latter the Carters must
have been already pretty well established in the colony, and
that the first John formed the unfortunate precedent of
marrying into his own family and beginning the tangle of
intermarriages that is almost impossible to unravel.
Although so many times married. Colonel John Garter
of /*^Crotoman" only left one son from whom there is any
known issue, Robert Carter, the "King Carter" of romance
and history. Robert Carter was carefully trained and edu-
cated from the age of five years as befitted the son of one
of Virginia's wealthiest planters.
As agent for Lord Fairfax for the Northern Neck, and
by land speculation and tobacco, King Garter trebled his
fortune until his wealth is supposed to have exceeded that
of any other planter of Colonial Virginia.
The epitaph of King Carter was done in Latin, and his
tomb is sfaid to have been wilfully defaced by those who
resented his overbearing dispositon and arrogance dis-
played during his lifetime. This tradition may be taken
with the proverbial grain of salt since there is no proof
extat As a member of the King's Council :he seems to
have displayed good statesmanship, and during an interreg-
num of governors, filled the position for the colony
Digitized by VjOOQIC
CARTER
The Gentlemen's Magazine in London for November.
1732, contains the following notice of his death. ''Robert
Garter, Esq., August 4lh in Virginia. He was president of
the Council and left to his children about one thousand
negroes and ten thousand pounds".
King Carter was married in 1668 to Judith Armistead.
After the death of Judith, in 1701, he again married, his
second wife being a widow, Elizabeth Willis, but before
marriage Elizabeth Langdon, the beautiful daughter of .
Thomas Langdon, of Middlesex County, Virginia
Of the four sons of Robert Carter, John, of Crotoman
the eldest, will be the only one mentioned in this sketch
since it is through him the Tennessee family traces its line
of descent from the Virginia Carters.
John of Crotoman inherited his grandfather's plantation
on the Rappahannock, but through his marriage with
Elizabeth Hill he came into possession of what was then
the most renowned plantation in Virginia, that of Shirley,
which Sir Edward Hill had purchased? for his bride, a
Welsh heiress and court beauty.
John Carter "the second," sliudied law in London at the
Inner Temple. In 1722 he w«as appointed secretary of
Virginia 'and is known in Garter genealogy as **Secretary
Garter".
As secretary he seems to have resided mostly at Wil-
liamsburg and at Shirley. Crotoman was a tobacco mart,
and records show that at one lime he upheld one Joseph
Carter as inspector despite the accusations against him and
the protestali»ons of Corbin, Receiver of Customs, and other
officials.
Dealh came to Secretary Garter July 31, 1742. After
the prescribed period of mourning expired, Elizabeth
Carter -married a certain Browler Cocke of w'hom little is
known except that he held Shirley until the year 1771, at
which date Charles Carter of Crotoman came into the es-
tate of Shirley.
All family records handed down, and famous paintings
of both Byrds and Garters have been preserved through the
lines of Charles Carter, of Crotoman and of Shirley. There
are no traditions or records of deaths or missalliances or of
domestic upheavels in the family of Secretary Carter.
However, there is food for fhought in the observation
that all hough Secretary Carter married in 1723, Charles,
the supposed eldest son of Secretary Carter, was not born
until ten years later. Elizabeth Hill, who was but one
year older than her brother, became the wife of '^William
Byrd III" of Westovor. There was a difference of six
63
Digitized by VjOOQIC
NOTABLE SOUTHERN FAMILIES
years between the birth of Charles anct the younger and only
remaining son, Edward of Blenheim. It would seem also
that the eldest son would, as waa the custom usually ob-
served, have borne the name of John, since that wfiis the
name of both the Secretary and his father. One would
suppose, too, that Charles as the eldest son received the
paternal estate of Grotoman, that Edward would
have been entitled to the estate Shirley, since he was
christened the namelfeake of Edward Hill, the brother from
whom his mother inherited Shirley.
Why too, we muse, was the step-father permitted to
usurp Shirley so long after Charles became of age? It
could' not have been indifference on the part of the Garters,
for of all Colonial homes Shirley was Ihe mo&t to be desired.
One could imagine a missing heir, eccentricities on the
part of Secretary Garter, and irregularities on the part of
Charles of Shirley, to concoct a book of fiction. But it
would be fiction. There is nothing in history, written rec-
ords or traditions to uphold such a supposition.
Charles Carter of Shirley, is said to have been a man of
splendid character and renowned for his charity. He W€is
twice married (1) Mary, the daughter of his uncle, Charles
Garter of Cleve, (2) Mary Butler Moore. He was the father
of twenty-three children. John Hill Carter, eldest son, born
1750, is given in the family tree of the Byrds as having
been a member of the House of Delegates from Lancaster
County in 1780, and as dying unmarried. Charles, the
ftecond son, also died unmarried. The third son, George
Carter, married a daughter of Sir Peyton Skipworth. Mary
Oarter, the eldest daughter, married George Braxton.
Elizabeth Carter married Colonel Robert Randolph. Charles
Carter married Nancy Carter of Sabine Hall. Edward
Oarter married Jane Carter of Sudley. Landon Carter died
unmarried. Robert Carter, the eldest son by the second
marriage (lo Mary Mcjorei, died unmarried; the
next daughter, Anne Hill Carter, married Gen-
eral Henry Lee of Stratford. Robert Carter (2) married
Mary, daughter of Governor Nelson. Bernard Carter
married a daughter of General Henry Lee of Stratford
(whose wife was daughter of Philip Ludwell Lee). Anne
Lee Garter (bom 1773, died 1829) was the mother of Robert
E. Lee. Calphurnia Carter of Shirley was born as late as
1796.
The tradition that the Pioneer John Carter, of Tennessee,
was a member of the same family as Anne Carter Lee is
evidently unfounded. The eldest 'of this large family of
64
Digitized by VjOOQIC
GARTER
twenty-three children, John Hill Garter, who is said to have
died unmarried, was born in 1750, and John Garter of Ten-
nessee had grown sons and probably grandsons in 1775.
Anne Garter Lee, however, was not only a daughter of
Charles Garter of Shirley, but she was granddaughter of
Gharles, "Uncle Gharles of Oleve".
Gharles Garter of Gleve, son of King Garter, married ( 1 1
Mary Walker, (2) Anne Ryrd, (3) Lucy TahafeiTO. The
only John of this family was the son of Anne Byrd, who
married in Philadelphia in 1771, the daughter of Colonel
Claiborne.
Landon Garter, brother of Charles Garter of Gleve by
his second wife, Maria Byrd, had a son, known as John
of Sudley who married Janet Hamilton.
By glancing over the names by the early Garter family
line Doth in the male and female lines, in Tennessee, it
would seem that the Tennessee family were descend^^d
from Robert Garter of Nomoni and his wife, Pricilla Bladen
of Maryland. Robert Garter was the second son of William
(King) Garter. Robert died a few months before his father,
and his brother, Secretary Garter was guardian for his two
children, Robert and Elizabeth. Robert was married in
1727 and his death occurred in 1732. In 1736 or prior to
this date, Pricilla Bladen (barter married Colonel John Lewis
of Warner Hall. The expt^nse accoun'ljs for the diildren,
Robert and Elizabeth, have been kept, and they seem to
have been provided for in a manner befitting the grand-
children of King Carter.
Robert Carter, juniiir, one of the most famous Carters,
known as ''Chancellor Robert/' inherited his father's
estate. He was born in 1728 and died in 1804. He mami^i
Frances Tasker of Maryland. The most prominent Virginia
family in ft'lris line is d^^cended from a son, Geoi^ge Carter,
of Oatlands.
The ftr&t children of Robert and Pricilla Carter, viz:
Benjaiipin, Robert, John, Sophia, Harriet, Mary, all are
^ven in the family tree as dying uaimarried, which after
all seems an easy and efTective method of disposing of
s-urplus progeny in family genealogy. Pricilla married a
Mr. Mitchell. Flrances married a Major Thomas Jones, of
Essex County.
Betty Landon married Spencer Ball. Anna Task(T
married John Mound. Sarah, the fourteenth and last child
of Robert and Frances Tasker Carter, married Chinn.
Elizabeth Carter, daughter of Rob<Tt Carter and Pricilla
Bladen, and sister of the Councillor, at the age of seventeen
married, Francis Willis of Gloucesrer.
05
Digitized by
Google
NOTABLE SOUTHERN FAMILIES
Again it is a temptation to let ihe imagination run riot
and conjecture another offspring, a youpger child of
Pricilla Bladen Garter, but here again tradition and family
record refuse to support any such claim.
Colonel Jo^hn Carter, the founder of the Tennesse.) Car-
ters, is precluded from being the son of Chancellor Carter,
and a grandson of Robert Carter and Pricilla Bladen, if
family records are correct. However, the writer believes
that sons of the Chancellor and allied and collateral families
of Jones, Lewis, Willis and Balls, were among those who
ohosie to follow their kinsmen to the North Carolina
frontier.
Having traveled around "Robin Hood's Barn" and back
to the starting place the writer must confess that in a|l
published records and genealogies of Virginia families
of Carters, there is no mention — and apparently no place —
for Colonel John Carter, of Tennessee. His history is not
unlike that of the first Colonel John Carter of Crotoman,
who built and fortified his home upon the Rappahannock
and who despite efforts to attach him to different ancesilral
trees, still remains *'John the Founder".
The Carters of Tennessee
Coocerning the fort built at Long Island in 1759 we are
told that it covered a goodly area on a smooth green level,
was built strong, fortified with small cannon, and the
heavy gates spiked with nails *'so that the wood was all
covered".
We may well imagine that there were gentlemen ad-
venturers among the soldiers and surveyors who spent that
memorable winter with Colonel Byrd at Long Island.
Following in the footsteps of the hunters and traders,
allied families of the Byrds whose names are associated
with Colonial Virginia, settled upon the banks of the
Watauga Hotslon. John Carter and Amos Byrd were
fnioneers, and ere the Revolution was commenced we find
amities of Hills, Loyds, Harrisons, Randolphs, Nelsons and
Carters residing in Washington County, Tennessee.
Colonel John Carter of Virginia
Fifteen years subsequent to the date of its first settle-
ment there were several branches of the Carter family in
Tennessee, each of whom is supposed to have had as head
a son or grandson of Colonel John Carter.
The year of Colonel John Carter's birth is not known.
He came to Wataiiga at about the same time that the
Sevier family came, or earlier, and selected for his home
66
Digitized by VjOOQIC
GARTER
a spot about one-half mile distant from the present town
of Elizabethton.
The Watauga Association was composed of thirteen
Commissioners, in whom all power was vested. It is
Kobable that tne Articles of the Association were outlined
Colonel Carter. Concerning his activities at this time
llr. Ramsey writes :
''Intelligent and patriotic, he was soon a leader in the
Watauga Association, and became the Chairman of its
Committee, and its Court — ^which for several years com-
bined the legislative, the judicial, and the executive funa
tions of the infant government we»l of Allegheny. His
administration was wise and popular".
The ' Association, Which assetnbled in 1772, is said ta
have had' th'e first written* laws west of the Alleghenj
Mountains.
Four years later Colonel Carter was Chairman of the
Convention which framed the petition to North Carolina
for annexation. The signature of Colociel Carter is referred
to by Mr. Ramsey as being written *4n a palsied hand".
Notwithstanding Ihis supposed old age Colonel Carter
seems to have led rather a strenuous life during the two
years following. In i*esponse to the Watauga settlers^
pe-liiion, North Carolina created W^asMngton Dis'Iirict and
John Carter, John Sevier and Charles Robertson were ap-
pointed to represent the District in the North Carolina
Assembly at Halifax, November,* 12, 1776. It was one year
later Ihat John Carter received his commission from Gov-
ernor Alexander Martin as Colonel Commandant of the
Militia at WVishington County.
In 1778 the strength of the settlemen'ls was depleted
through the enlistment of the younger men, in the North
Carolina and Virginia service. Beside Indian depredations,
Tories dribbled in(o the settlement and seem lo
have gathered' in some numbers in "Brown's Settlement**
on the Nnllichucky.
Colonel Carter sent to Virginia for reinforcements^
marched to Browns, where he forced upon all British
sympathizers the Test Oath which they had hoped to escape
by fleeing to Virginia and North Carolina.
In some manner, we are told, oflicers acting under the
orders of General Rutherford, interfering with his author-
ity, Colonel Carter dispatched the following laconic epistle
to the Governor:
"Your Excellency may be assured that I will do every-
thing in my power for regulating the militia for the defense
of our frontier, and for the benefit of the United States;
67
'-f
Digitized by
Google
NOTABLE SOUTHERN FAMILIES
but if my dignify is to be sported with under those ciroum-
fi^tances, I have no need of your commission as' Commanding
Officer of Washington District". — Ramsey's Annals of
Tennessee).
When the first court for Washington County was held
February 3, 1778, Colonel Garter was appoin'led not only
chairman of the court, but entry taker for Washington
County.
In 1780 when a meeting of military officers was held for
the purpose of sending recruits into South Carolina,
Colonel John Sevier had succeeded Colonel Carter as
Colonel of^the Washington County militia.
Also in* October of this same year when Colonel Sevier
was in need of money for provisioning the expedition to
King's Mountain, John Ad^air was the entry-taker who
furnished the money and whose patrioilic reply to Colonel
Sevier on his request for the same has gone down in
history.
Landon Carter, Soldier and Statesman
While not the oldest of the sons of Colonel John Carter
of Watauga, Landon Carter is the only one whose name
has gone d*own in his'torical annals. Tne name "Landon"
no doubt received from his paternal grandmother, Elizabeth
Landon, second wife of Robert (King Garter) was also
borne by a Virginia Statesman of the Revolution, Landon
Carter of Sabine Hall, of whom it was written, "That when
a member of 'the King's Council, he favored the Colonists
and not the King in all things".
Tennessee's pioneer, Landon Carter, reached maturity
^during the rough and constructive days of the fronHer.
Possessing inherited ability, and a better education than tlie
average frontiersman, his talents were not unrecognized
and he served with equal devotion North Carolina, Frank-
lin, the Territorial government and Tennessee.
The name, Landon Carter, is found on the petition of
Watauga settlers to North Carolina for annexation.
He was a lieutenant of militia in 1780 and is thought to
have been at King's Mountain, and served with the recruits
who were sent into South Carolina.
He participated in the Battle of Boyd's Creek, after
which he was commissioned Major. Later as a
Colonel he was conspicuous in the Indian wars.
Landon Carter's spnpathies were with the State of
Franklin. Because of judicial training, personality and
popularity he was chosen by Governor Sevier as an am-
68
Digitized by VjOOQIC
GARTER
bassador to the North Carolina Assembly to inform it of
the secession of the over-mountain counties.
During the exis»tence of Franklin he served as a member
of its Council, Secretary of State, and Sj>eaker of the Senate.
Und^er Governor Blount and the Territorial regime,
Colonel Garter held the important position as treasurer for
Washington District, a position he retained after the for-
mation of Vhe state. In 1796 he was a member of the Con-
vention which framed the Constitution for the State of
Tennessee.
Colonel Landon Garter had been educated at old Liberty
Hall, Xor«;h Carolina. He was an able lawyer, practicing
in all of the early courts of the stale. Hlis character was
such -as to make^ him loved- and respected by all of his
family and associates.
When a new county was taken from Washington
County in 179(5, it was named Carter County in his honor;
and its county seat, Elizabethton, was so called for his wife.
Besid;^ a son, William B. Carter, Landon Carter had a
daughter. Eliza, who became the wife of George Gillespie,
and a daughter Mary, who married the eminent lawyer,
James P. Taylor, grandfather of the late Hon. Robert Love
Taylor, of Tennessee.
Mary Carter, Wife of General Nathaniel Taylor
The Taylars and Carters were no doubt related before
the emigraMon to Tennessee. Nathaniel Taylor is said to
have built the first mill on 'the Wataiiga. His wife was
Marv', daughter of Colonel John of Watauga and sister of
Landon Carler. The writer has no record of other daugh-
ters of Colonel Carter.
John Carter, Son of Colonel John of Watauga
John Carter is thought to have been the eldest of at least
^ve sons of Colonel John Carter of Watauga, Washington
Oouniy, Tennessee. It was he who with the exception of
the Freiich trading post nt^r NashviHe owned and operated
the first store for the selling of merchandise in the present
state of Tennessee.
John Carter was one of the first patentees of Watauga.
With Joseph Parker he operated a store, which is located
by the histoa*ians Haywood and Ramsey as about "fifteen
or eighteen miles Prom Rodgersville''. Accordinig to tradition .
it was at Carter's Station, now Albany in Greene County,
where descendants of ■the family have kept a store on or
near the spot since pioneer days.
69
Digitized by VjOOQIC
NOTABLE SOUTHERN FAMILIES
The primary object of this store was no doubt to do a
profitable trade with the Indians, and it seems to have
prospered to such an extent that when it was plundered
by a marauding party, the owners did not attempt to re-
taliate. Buif at the Treaty of Sycamore Shoals at which
time Daniel Boone, Colonel Henderson, and Charles Robert-
son secured lilies to their land by purchase. Carter and
Parker likewise were present and demanded damages, "an
cxt-enaion of their lands froim OMmney Top Mountain to
Caoud's Greek".
In order to meet the conditions of the Indians, it was
necessary for Garter and Parker to »take Robert Lucas as a
partner in the business. The latter's interest was probably
gurchased by one or more of John Garter's brothers since
-ober^l Lucas accompanied General James Roberlson to the
Cumberland, and later met his death at the attack on Free-
land's Station.
The Garters may have had ambition Ic become landed
Barons, but the land they had se'ltled upon thinking it in
Virginia, was in North Oarolina and the lalier stale did not
recognize the validi'ty of laiute purchased f rem Ihe Indians
The Carters and Parkers did secure their improvements and
grants from North Carolina, which' placed the former
among the largest landowners in Greene aiii Hawkins
Counties.
John Carter died in the year 1812.
Daniel Carter and Other Carters
Daniel Garter was one of the largest landf»wners among
the early Garters, and owned 2,000 acres in Greene County.
He was either the son or brother of John Garter and was the
executor of his estate. He was a magistrate in 1788, and
again in 1798. In the year 1803 he was one of the com-
missioners to lay off the boundary line between Greeneville
and Hawkins County. A daughter, Sophie, married a son
of John Pogue, one of the early settlers from Augusta
County, Virginia. A son, Elisha, married Margaret Ander-
son, and had a son, Benjamin, who married Peggy Foster
in 1824. Daniel was no doubt t4ie fathe'r of a large family,
including sons Daniel and John and Benjamin, of whom
ibere are several of the names in the early records.
One of th» oldest mills in Greene County was one built
by Philip Rabb, on the road from Greeneville to Rodgersville
Tttiis mill seems to have been the nucleus around which
a number of Virginia families, who evidently came through
Garter's Valley, settled. Prior to 1800 the Oai^lers who re-
70
Digitized by VjOOQIC
GARTER
sided in this section were numerous, and no doubt were the
sons and grandsons of Colonel John Carter, of Watauga.
Some of the families wi'th whom they intermairied were
the Templeton, Harrison, Pogne Keller, Jones, Weems,
Cforbin, Newnmn, Hardin Loyd, Hill, Lane and Parker.
Abraham Garter, perhaps one of the sons of Colonel
Gartw, was a large landowner and resided between Babb's
Mill and Rodgersville. His son, Eki«il, was the father of
a large family.
Joseph also lived on the Babb's Mill road. He was a
magistrate in 1805 and 1807; he died in 1811, and a son,
Joseph, was the administrator of his estate. Joseph Carter,
senior, was a broliher of Daniel.
Jacob Garter was overseer of the Babb's Mill Road in
1804. His ncune is found on the tax receipts of 1783. His
marriage to Sally Edmonds, possibly a second wife, is re-
corded in 1819.
Levi Garter died in 1811.
Hugh Garter, Senior, had a son, Hugh, who married
Rebecca Babb, 1814.
Francis J. Garter sold his land in 1801, and is supposed
to have emigrated elsewhere. (See next page.
James Garter moved to Jackson County in 1814.
Jesse Garter resided on the Babb Mill Road near Rodgers-
ville, 1798.
Pricilla Rebecca Garter married Jesse Morrison, 1819.
David Garter married Agnes Jones, 1795.
Polly Garter married Wesley Harrison, 1815.
Sarah Garter married P. Eidtoonds. 1819.
Rachel Garter married Havely, 1789.
William Garter married Elisabeth Jones, 1790.
Ann Carter married Andrew McFadand, 1825.
Lewis Garter married Elisabeth Parker, 1820
Hugh, 1789.
There were many Benjamins to be found among
the Garters. It is possible Benjamin, senior, was one of the
older sons of Colonel John Garter of Watauga. Benjamin
had a son Nathaniel Garter, perhaps a namesake of Nathan-
iel Taylor, who died prior to 1796. His son, Nathaniel or
Nathan, lived near the Sherrills in the Gove Greek Serttle-
ment. Another Carter, who lived on Gove Greek, was
Samuel, the father of James and Anderson Garter.
The foregoing are only a few among the many of the
early Garters found in Greene and Hawkins County. They
were numerous notwith^handing the fact that Alabamat
71
'Digitized by VjOOQIC
NOTABLE SOUTHERN FAMILIES
Georgia and Mississippi received representatives of these
same families.
Concerning Joseph Parker, who, with John Garier,
established the first s^tore. He is believed to have had sons,
William, George and John.
One son was a Captain of militia in 1793.
George Parker probably married a daoighter of Caleb
Gainer; he bad a son Caleb, who lived on "Landon Churn,"
Camp Greek. This land ^had evidently at one <ime been
in the CaHer ffiimily.
The village of Ottway, some distance removed from the
county seat of Greeneville, in Stage Coach days, was not
wilihout its aspiralii'ons. Now an educational, and progress-
ive farming center it was in pioneer days the cradle of many
of the best families of Washinglon, Greene U'nd Hawkins
counties. The Oltways of Virginia were a collateral family
of the Byrds, and were also allied with the Garters.
A son of Colonel William Byrd and Elisabe«th Carter
Byrd was educated and resigned his commission in the
British army to accept a place on the staff of General Henry
Ottway was perhaps intended as a family seat of the
Garter family such as possessed by ^their ancestors in Eng-
land and later planted on Virginia soil, but which could not
materialize in the new and democratic frontier, which is
now Tennessee.
Francis Jackson Garter, born , married February
-, died 1857, said to be a sooi of John Carter of Hawkins
County, and l)ro+her of Landon Garter, serttled in Sweet-
water Valley, Tennessee. He married Esther Orockett, a
kinswoman of Davy Qrocke-tt. 'Rie marriage took place
February 17, 17—. She was bom and died' July 9,
1870. ^ '
Mr. W. B. Lenoir in the History of Sweettwater VaJley,
says this Francis Jackson Garter, was a son of John Garter
of Hawkins County, and a brother of Landon Carter, and
as he must have known Francis Jackson Garter's widow
well, the evidence is convincing.
Among the several children of Francis J. and Esther
Crockett Cartel* were:
1 The«*esa Newell Carter, who married John Scruggs.
She was born near Newport, Tennessee, October 8, 1806.
She was married September 7, 1824, and died November 9,
1888. She had fourteen dhildren, among them (a) Richard
Fi*anc»is Scruggs, who married Elizabetti Ramsey Heiskell;
72
Digitized by VjOOQIC
GARTER
and they had (1) M«ar*ha, died jxning. (2) Frank Heiskell;
nrnrried Lowry. (3) John Frederick, married May Williams.
(4) Daniel Pope, manried Eva Dulaney Rodgers. (5) Arthur
Bpuce, mamed- Belle Heabler. (6) Susan Newman. (7)
Joseph. (8) Katherlne, nmnried Henry Hairdey. (9) Annie
Nelson, married Ross Owen. (10) Richard Abjah.
Elizabeth Esiher Scruggs, daugJiter of John Scruggs,
married September 30, 1847, Horace Burton Yearwood.
She died October 25, 1905. Their children were: William
C. G.; John Scruggs; Richard J.; Lavina Ida; Horace Bur-
ton; Daniel Boone; James Bennie; Francis Garter; Charles;
Hugh. Of the foregoing. John Scruggs Yearwood married
Mieay Bell FUzgerald, and had seven children: Pearl; Ida
Zoe; Sadie Ethel; James Horace; Ella Hortense; Mack Fitz-
gerald, and' Hugh Gaines. Francis Carter YeaTwood
married Mattie Moulton, and their child*ren were: Esther,
died young, and Francis C. Yearwood', junior.
Riohard Jarnigan Yearwood nmrried Jennie Walker.
Thei<r childi^n are : Maude,' nmrried John Staub Pouche,
(thtey have one son, John Staub Fouche, junior); FavMi
ifearwood. and Richard Horace Yearwood.
OTHER TENNESSEE GARTERS
Pascal Carter, married Be'lsey Durett, and had four
children :
1 Serena Carrier, married Jdhn Shadden, and had one
child', Margaret.
2 John G. Carter, married twice; first, Darthula Ann
Inman, and had six children: (a) Annie Elizabeth Carter,
who married W. F. Hutchenson. W. F. Hutcheson and Anne
Elizabeth (deceased) had one child, Samuel Carter Hutche-
son (who married Katherine And'rews).
(b) James Inmaji Garter, who married Samuella Chil-
dress. James Innmn and SamoieJlla Ohildi*ess Carter have
five children, namely: John Garnett (who married Freida
U'ttermoehleai — ^no cMldreoi) ; Mary I^ne (w^io married
Richard StMes — one child, Richard junior) ; Paul, un-
married Lucile (wtho married! James Glascock and* has
Ann and Lou Glascock), and Dorris Inman (who married
Ekiward Young Ghapin, junior) .
(c) John Bowie Cartefr, irtaripied Elizabeth Flinn, and
Has three cfhildren : John, James aind Frank.
(d) Rhoda Inman Garter, died in childhood.
(e) Mae Carter, married William Albert Jones, and
73
/ Digitized by VjOOQIC
NOTABLE SOUTHERN PAMIUES
has four oMldren : Anne Mae, who majried, first, Richard
Gterner Watkins (deceased), and second, James Niliill
Go-ndon) ; Margaret Inman (who married Robert Winthrop
Bairr, junio(r, and has one chdld: Margaret Jones Barr) ;
Ensign Hal Garter Jones, unmarried; Batrbara Lea Jones,
unmarried.
(f) Hugh Lea Garter; died in infancy.
2 John Goodley Garter, jnarrted second, Myra Inman.
and had three children: (a) Augus.t Jamagin, who first
married Blanohe Grossland (deceased), one child, John
Allen; second. Marie Burguine (no issue) ; (b) Peyton Lea,
who married Rowell; (c) Darthula (deceased), who
married Oscar McLain, and had one child, Delia Garter
(deceased).
3 Pascal Garter, who married .
4 Peyton Garter; unmarried.
Another well known Tennessee branch of the Garter
family is that of Mathew Garter, born in Greeneville, South
Garolina, December 15, 1829. He moved to Jonesboro, Ten-
nessee, when a young man and married Mary Emma
Brown, daughter of Gaptain Enooh Brown of Jonesboro.
They moved to Gleveland, Tennessee, in 1857. Mary Emma
Brown born October 17, 1831, died May 29, 1906. Mathew
Garteo", bom December 15, 1829, in Groenvdlle, South
Gairolina, died April 1885. Their children weaker
1 Edgar V. Gairter, married- Kate Robeson, daughter of
A. G. Robeson, of Athens, Tennessee, and now lives in
Allan'ta. Th^eir children are Rabesion Garter, Edgar V.
Garter, junior, Prank Garter and Katherine Garter.
2 Robert Lafayette Garter m<arried Viola Cleveland.
3 And'rew P. Garter, married first, Pauline Gray, of
Atlanl'a, and had one child, Andrew P. Geiter, junior, and
manned second, Eva Wintersmith, had one child, Richard
Garter.
4 Walter Bland Ga/rter married Pearl Ldnch and had
Aftion W. Garter, Walter Garter, junior, and Pearl G. Garter.
5 Fred A. Glarter married first Josephine King, daugh-
ter of A. S. King, and had iLwo daughters, Josephine and
M^ary Oraig Carter; married second. Belle Jones, daughter
of John M. Jones, of Sweetwater, Tennessee.
6 May Garter, married Frank Y. Jacksion. Their
children are: Mary, Frank Y., Margaret and Mansfield
Jackson.
74
Digitized by VjOOQIC
DAVIS
Davis is one of the oldest Welsh family names. The
line can be traced for many centuries and is said to include
Kin-gs Dole and Gadwaldar. The motto of the family is
"With God as a Leader and a Sword as a Oomrad".
Of the many Davis emigrants to America the family
which later became most notable is that of Evan Davis,
Samuel Davis and Joseph Davis; three brothers who emi-
grated' from Cardiff, Wales, about 1730. Evan Davis and
Samuel Davis landed at Philadelphia: Joseph Davis was
drowned on tl'he voyage. Samuel Davis went to what was
then the Middde West.
Some time after 1761, the exact date not being known,
Evan Davis emigrated from Pennsylvcmia to Georgia. He
ma-rried while still in Pennsylvania, Mrs. Mary Emory
Williams, a widow. Her father was Joseph Emory. By
her first marriage this lady had two sons, Daniel Williams
and Isaac Williams, bo^lh of whom were soldiers in the
Revolution. It was due to 'their participation in the war
that their young half-brother, Samuel Davis also joined
the forces of the Revolution, being sent by their mother to
join them.
Evan Davis and 'his wife (Mary Emory Davis), had at
least one son, Samuel Davis^ mentioned above, who was
born in Pennsylvania in 1756. This Samuel Davis, who
was in the Revolution, was the father of President Jefferson
Davis of the Confederate Slates of America.
Mrs. Metta Andi*ews Green, the well-known historian
of Georgia, has made close study of the life and residence
of Evan Davis. She writes : "Evan Davis moved 'lio Georgia
from Pennsylvania and settled about forty miles above
Augusta, so says Mrs. Davis in the life of her husband.
*' The place forty miles above /Augusta' is in Wilkes
Gounly four miles south of Washington. It belongs to
the estate of Mr. Gabriel Toombs. Before Mr. Toombs died
75
Digitized by VjOOQIC
NOTABLE SOUTHERN FAMILIES
I had a long talk with him. I was at this time writing
something of Jefferson Davis' ancestry. Mr. Toombs told
me that he himself was the third owner of the place from
Samuel Davis, the father of Jefferson Davis. The deeds
are all recorded here in our court house.
"I also found »fihat Samuel Davis fought at the Battle
of Kettle Creek: His name is certified to by General Elijah
Clarke. Evan Davis died and is buried on the place now
owned by the estate of Gabriel Toombs. The spot was
pointed ouH to me. I have visited it many times. There is
a large Indian mound near by. The place I speak of is
on Beaver Dam Creek, near the Washington branch of the
Georgia railroad.
*'If records filed in the court house and human testi-
mony count for anything, there can be no doubt of these
facts. I wrd'te to Mrs. Davis about the matter and I have
her letter agreeing with my statement. I also visited her in
her aparlment in New York. I was at the time very inter-
ested in collecting names of 'those who fought at Kettle
Greek, and when I found Samuel Davis' name, I began to
studv the Davis' family history, also the genealogj\
T^he Kettle Greek battle alluded to was fought February
14, 1780, at War Hill. General Toombs used itlo speak of
Wilkes County as the ^'Hornets Nest" of the Revolution.
It was more than that. Like the battle of King's Mountain,
it was a turning point.
Savannah had been captured and the British command-
ers w^re making plans to aid the Tories in possessing
Georgia. To this end Colonel Boyd, a British omcer, was
secreTly amployed to organize the Tories in South Carolina
and had crossed the Savannah River and entered Wilkes
on his way io the British army, expecting to join the
Briush forces which had possession of Augusta. This
would have given the British commanders a sweep of the
Southern country. The Royal Governor had been restored
to power in Savannah. Thus 'the importance of the Kettle
Greek battle.
Samuel Davis was ai the siege of Savannah, and as he
had raised and was captain of a Georgia company dliring
the war, it is more than probable that he had, >vith him
under General Clarke at Kettle Greek a portion of hk com-
pany. As his father, Evan Davis, lived in Wilkes, the
Samuel Davis company must have enlisted most of its men
from the **Hornet6 Nest'' and were **Wilkes boys".
Ool. Elijaih Clarke lived' to realize 'his fond hopes to see
Augusta again under the American colors. The State of
Georgia as a reward for his services, gave him a com-
76
Digitized by
Google
DAVIS
mission as a major-general and a handsome grant of land.
And South Carolma gave large land grants 4o Samuel Davis.
CAPTAIN SAMUEL DAVIS
Samuel Davis, the Revolutionary soldier, son of Evan
Davis the Emigrant, and his wife Mary EJmory Davis, was
born in 1756, in Pennsylvania. He died in 1824 in Missis-
sippi. As stated in foregoing paragraphs, he was. a Captain
in the Revolution, having naised a, company of Volunteers
in Georgia. Later he joined the Continental Army and
served in Soulh Carolina as well as Georgia. He was in the
Battle of Kettle Creek and in the Siege of Savanna^h. For
his services the Staitie of Soutfh Gairolina gnanted him a
thousand acres of land (in what is now Kentucky) and he
moved to settle upon 4hat property. There his famous son
Jefferson Davis was horn. From Kentucky Sanmel Davis
moved to Louisiana, and again in 1811 he moved to Missis-
sippi where in 1824 he died.
Captain Samuel Davis married in 1782, Jane Cook, a
daughter of Mrs. Sarah Simpson Cook, who was herself
a daughter of Samuel Simpson, said to have been assisrtiant
Quartermaster of the Pennsylvania Regiment during the
Revolution. His father was Thomas Simpson and hie father
was John Simpson, who emigrated from Scotland to
Ireland and from Ireland to America, settling in Pennsyl-
vania as did many of the Scotch-Irish people.
Samuel Davis and his wife, Jane Simpson Cook
Davis, had <en children, namely :
1 Joseph Emory Davis.
2 Benjamin Davis.
3 Samuel Davis, Second.
4 Isaac Davis.
5 Anne Davis.
6 Amanda Davis.
7 Lucinda Davis.
8 Matilda Davis.
9 Mary Anne Davis.
10 Jefferson Davis.
JOSEPH EMORY DAVIS
1 Joseph Emory Davis, bom 1784, died 1870; was a
lawyer and planter in Mississippi. His young brother, Jef-
fereon Davis, spent much time with him and in the splendid
library of the home absorbed much of the wealth of knowl-
edge for which he was noted in after years. Joseph Emory
77
Digitized by VjOOQIC
NOTABLE SOUTHERN FAMILIES
Davis married Elizcd^eth Van Benthysen and had one
daughter, Mary Lucinda Davis, who married in 1837, Dr.
Charles Jouett Mi'tehell, of Vicksburg, as his first wife.
2 Benjamin Davis, Second, was a planter. He married
Cynthia Campbell (Moably) and died leaving children.
3 Samuel Davis, Second, was a planter. He married
Lucy Throckmarton. They had one claughter, Helen Davis.
who married Kea»ry, and had Robert Keary, Samuel
Keary, Pauline Keary and Ellen Keary.
4 Isaac Davis married Susan Guerthy. They had one
son who was General Joseph Emory Davis, Second.
5 Anne Davis married Lut'her Smilh, and had a
daughter, Anne Davis Smith.
AMANDA. DAVIS
6 Amanda Davis, married David Bradford. They had
four children, naxnely : (a) Jefferson Davis Bradford (who
was an enginer in the Uniited States Army; (b) Lucy Brad-
ford (who married Dr. Charles Jouett Mitchell, of Vicksburg.
hier first .co»usin's widower, as his second wife and haa
at least one daughter Mitchell, who married Eli
Joseph Ganier. They had two sons, Lincoln Mitchell
Ganier, who is unmarried and lives in Chattanooga, and
Albert Francis Ganier who lives in Na-shville and married
Ann Eastman, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Roger Eastman
of Nas'hvile. Their two sons are: Albert Francis Ganier,
junior, and Roger Eastman Ganier.
(c) Elizabeth Porlier Bradford, who married Mansell
II, son of Mansell White I, in the United States. Their
children were Mansell White, III, who is unmarried; Lucy
While, who married Clemertl Penrose Wilkerson and has
four children; Mary Br^adford White, who married Ring-
gold Brouspears and had five children; Carl White (who
married Mary Mitchell of Cincinnati, and had seven
children, namely: Carl White, Second, who is unmarried,
Elizabeth White who is a nun in the convent of the Sacred
Heart, Nancy Miles White who married Charles Earl John-
son, junior, of Raleigh, North Carolina, and has a son,
Charles Earl Johnson, Third, Charlol^te White who married
Robert Swepson Cowan, Second, and has a son Robert
Swepson Cowan, junior, Mansell White, Fourth.
Lincoln Mitchell White and Richard White who are un-
married) ; Albert Sidney Johnson White who married Ellen
Tobin and has five children ;(d) Elizabeth Parker Bradford
White who married Edwin Rodd,, Nancy Miles White
who married Thomas Helms Anderson and has two chii-
78
Digitized by VjOOQIC
DAVIS
dren) ; and David Bradford, Second, (who served in the
Confederate Airmy. He married in 1838, Ada Eliza Pol-
tenger) .
7 Lucinda Davis, married William Stampes of Wood-
ville, Mississippi.
8 Matilda Davis, died unmarried.
9 Mary Anne Davis, mairied Robert Davis of South
Carolina.
JEFFERSON DAVIS, PRESIDENT OF THE CON-
FEDERATE STATES OF AMERICA
10 Jefferson Davis was ttie tentlh child) and the
fifth son of Caplain Samuel Davis and Jane Cook Davis.
He was boni in Christian County, Kentucky, June 3, 1808.
He died in New Orleans, December 8, 188&. His father and
mother removed from Wilkes County, Georgia, to Kentucky,
shortly after the revolution owing to a grant of six thousana
acres of land', a reward for di-stinguished Revolutionary
service.
Captain Samuel Davis, when his distinguished son was
still small, moved again, -lihis time to Mississippi. Jefferson
Davis attended schools in Mississippi, St. Thomas College
Kentucky. T-ransylvania University, at Lexington, Ken-
lucky ana he graduaited from West Point in 1828, with high
honors and served in the Indian Wars. In 1825 while an
officer in the army he married Sarah Knox Taylor, daugh-
ter of General 5^chary Taylor and Margaret Mackall Smith
Taylor. Upon his marriage, Lieutenant Davis resigned
from the army and retired, to Briarfield, the plantation in
Mississippi, which had been given him by his brother,
Joseph Emory Davis.
There his yoarng wife died wiUhin a yeiair. He devoted
himself to study in the years s-uoceeding her deaith and in
the library of' his brother, Joseph Emory Davis, then
probably the largest and most extensive in Mississippi,
he acquired a profound knowledge of history and literature
that in after public life served him well. In 1845 he was
elected to congress. Upon the breaking out of the Mexican
War he resigned from Congress, volunteered, and was
Colonel of the First Mississippi Rifles. He won great dis-
tinction, and was acclaimed as the Hero of Buena Vista
where he saved the Amercan Army from complete disasiter.
He was severely wounded in the engagement. He declined
the rank of Brigadier-General and once again retired from
Military service. In 1847 he was appointed United States
79
Digitized by VjOOQIC
NOTABLE SOUTHERN FAMILIES
Senator and later was elected to the same office. While in
the Senate he was Chairman of Military affairs. In 1851
he decided to become a candidate for Governor of Missis-
sippi and thei^fore resigned his seat in the Senate. He did
not win the election however and retired to Briarfleld. In
1853 President Pierce appointed him Secretary of War, an
office he was eminently fitted to occupy by his natural gifts
and attainments and he ranks as the greatest Secretary of
War. Among the achievements of his administMrtion were
the survey made for the route of the Pacific Railway; the
extension of the Gapitiol ; the building of the aqueduct which
supplies Was'hington with water; the building of Cabin
Johns Bridge, a remarkable engineering feat which was
solely his design. His name as Secretary of War was cut
from the tablet on the bridge and has only recently been
restored after flUty years of effort on the paint of the Daugh-
ters of the Confederacy, the Confederate Veterans and the
Confederate Memorial Association.
He was again elected to the Senate at the close of Presi-
dent Pierce's term and was Jthe leader in that body when the
question of secession began to be discussed. Coloiiel Davis
as he was c€tlled only approved secession as a last resort,
but in 1861 when Mississippi seceded he returned to his
State and was almost immediately made a Major-General
of the Mississippi troops. His election to the Presidency of
the Confederate States of America soon followed.
An in'teresting incident of his inauguration in Mont-
gomery was the famously eloquent introdtiction of Mr.
Davis to 'Ihie assembled people by 'William Yancey. The
seven words are classic in their simplicity:
*'The hour and the man have met".
Col. Davis himself was a brilliant speaker and shared
with Yancey the reputation of being the greatesrt} orator in
the United Staples. His voice was purest melody and he
could move any audience to his will. Except for the war
and Ms election to the Presidency of the Confederate States,
he would probably have been President of the United States,
as he was immeinsely popular ilhrougihout the North. His
keen political power as an orator made him a popular can-
didate for the office for which he was being widely dis-
cussed tihf^ughout the North as well as the Sou'lh.
In the formation of the Confederate Government how-
ever he hoped ft)r military rank and his genius and acoom-
plisftiment in military affairs entitled him to expect if. He
80
Digitized by VjOOQIC
DAVIS
was instead, given the greatest office in the gift of Southern
people.
He was reluctant to talk war and hoped for reunion.
His history for four years is identified with that of the
Confederate States and need not be given in detail here.
When the Confederacy fell he was imprisoned and kept in
close confinement, much of 4'h« time manacled, for many
months.
In 1876 he was admitted to bail, bu'C the indictment
was never dismissed and Jefferson Davis died still under
indictment, though he and his friends continually implored
for trial. It is said that the A'titorney-General of the United
States advised against trial as treason could not be proved,
the stales having the right previous to 1861 to withdraw and
also because every West Point student was instructed (until
1861) thai in the event of any stale withdrawing, allegiance
was due to the state. This was in Rawl's (Constitution
which was a text book at West Poin'l until 1861, when the
books were destroyed. Only a few are now in existence.
Returning from prison, wh^n bail was admitted, to his
beloved Mississippi to the home of his brother, Joseph
Emory Davis, who had been a father and older brother to
him, he was received by his people with adoration tftiat
must have softened somewhat the sotih)w of suffering. His
niece, Mrs. Lucy Mitchell, of Vicksburg, who lived until a
short lime since, the daughter of a favorite sister,
Amanda Davis, recently told the writer, of the affecrting
scenes when th-e people would come for miles to see him,
to kneel by his chair Where his thin form half reclined,
io weep over 'him and lo kiss the wrisls that had been
manacled so long.
Hi* heaK'h was shatlerod by his loing and arduous con-
finement and he traveled for three years in Ganad«a and
Europe. In 1879 he sellled at Beauvoir, Mississippi, and
wrolfe his ''Rise and Fall of the Confederacy". During
his last years he was beloved by his people and worshipped
wherever he went. ''He lived a dignified life to a dignified
close.'' "He was a staltesman with clean hands and a pure
heart, who served his people faithfully from budding
manhood to hoary age, without thought of himself with
unbending integrily, and lo the best of his ability".
Dr. Henry E. Shepperd, of Baltimore, said of Jefferson
Davis :
"The marked veirsatility of intellectual power revealed
in Mr. Davis' character suggested a parallel between him
81
Digitized by VjOOQIC
NOTABLE SOUTHERN FAMILIES
and Thomas Jefferson. A failure in the sphere of oratory,
in the richness anid amplitude of hlis knowledge, Jefferson
stood without a peer until the advent of Mr. Davis.
" The Prison Life of Jefferson Davis', by his attending
physician. Dr. Graven, recalls to memory the exuberant
wealth of acquirement illustirated in the lives of three fore-
mosit lights of anodem statesmanship — Jefferson, Gladstone,
and the late Lord Salisbury. The Prometheus of the Con-
federacy in the gloom of his cell at Fortress Monroe, took
all human knowledge for his province, discoursed upon art,
literature, philosophy, strategy, economic problems, po-
litical issues until the darkness of his casement was radiant
with the light of the Baconian ideal, 'unfoldled to his pro-
phertiic vision, and int^^rpreted to a single listener. His
mastery over language and gift of illuminating whatever
theme he touched. dis])layed its power in every relation,
personal or official, in the execu'live station when he stood
on Fo«rtune's crowning slope, or later when he enjoyed the
sweet aloofness of social converse''.
The work of Dr. Graven holds a unique place in our
literary record. It was published by the Neal Company,
New York. Rarely has so marvelous a narative of heroic
endurance been presented to the world.
It is a matter of regret that so small a portion of Mr.
Davis' speeches associated with the Confederacy, have been
preserved. Partiicularly it is regretted that the one to General
Lee delivered in Richmond in November, 1870, is not pi*e-
served; *'An oration'', says Dr. Shepperd,'' worthy of Pericles
has vanished and it is but one of a select company upon
wthich a seal of immonlality should be wTought in strongest
relief".
*ln all Mr. Davis' writings and speeches, art grace,
fervor, patriotism blend into a golden harmony".
Jefferson Davis married for his second wife, February
28, 1845, Varina Banks Howell (born 1828, died 1908),
daugihter of William Burr Howell, of New Jersey, and his
wife Margaret Louisa Kemp Howell. William Burr Howell
was a son of Major and Governor Richard Howell (born
1752, died 1802), of New Jersey and his wife Keziah Burr
Howell. Margaret Louisa Kemp s father was Oolcnel James
Kemp, an Irish gentleman who came to America after the
Emmett Rebellion.
Varina Banks Howell was born May 7, 1828. She was
82
Digitized by
Google
DAVIS
named in honor of her mother's friend, Mrs. George Banks
(Varina Staunton Banke), of Natchez, Mississippi.
She married Jefferson Davis, February 28, 1845, at
Briarfleld, which is still standing about a mile south of
Naltchez on a bluff overlooking the river. The marriage
records show the names Jefferson Davis, William B. How-
ell, Varina Ho^^ell and the name of the officiaMng minister.
Mrs. Davis, after the death of her husband, often
signed her name "V. Jefferson Davis'', the "V", being the
initial of "veuve", the French word for widow. This is a
custom in the South, in New Orleans cuid Mobile regiona
and in the Lower Mississippi country. Her signature when
so shown means *'Widow Jefferson Davis" and not Varina
Jefferson Davis as ntany historians stajte. One historian
says her name was Varina Jefferson Howell. This is mani-
festly a mistake. It is a very singular fact tha«t the records
the Chancery Ck>urt of Vicksburg, Mississippi, show that
she signed her will as Varina Jefferson Davis which must
have been an inadvertance and could not have been correct.
The proper legal signature for such a document would have
been Varina Banks Howell Davis if she had signed her full
name.
Jefferson Davis and Varina Howell Davis had six chil-
dren, namely:
1 Samuel Emory Davis, who died in infancy.
2 MargareJt Howell Davis.
3 Jefferson Davis, who died unmarried.
4 Joseph Evan Davis, who died young..
5 Varinia Ann Howell Jefferson Davis, died unmarried.
Samuel Davis died in infancy. Jefferson Davis, junior,
born 1858. died unmarried in 1878, in Memphis, Tennessee,
a hero oi the yellow fever epidemic w^ich afflicted the
South in 1878.
Joseph Evan Davis, died in infancy.
Varina Ann Howell Jefferson Davis was born in the
White House in Richmond, in 1864. She was called
Winnie and was adopted as the daughter of the Con-
federacy. She died unmarried in 1898.
Margaret Howell Davis married in 1877 Joel Addison
Hiayes and had five children, namely :
1 A son who died in infancy.
2 Varina Howell Davis Hayes.
3 Lucy White Hayes.
4 Jefferson Davis Hayes.
5 William Davis Hayes.
-»--■
83
Digitized byCjOOQlC
NOTABLE SOUTHERN FAMILIES
Of the foregoing Varina Howell Hayes married Dr,
Gerald Bertram Webb. Their children are: Varina Mar-
garet Webb, Gerald Bertram Webb, junior, Frances Robina
Webb, Eleanor Leila Constance Webb, Joel Addison Hayes
Webb.
Lucey White Hayes married George Bower Young.
Their children are: Margaret Josephine Young, Harvey
Young, George Oliver Young.
Jefferson Davis Hayes, born 1884, was the first living
son of Margaret H'owell Davis Hayes and Joel Addison
Hayes. He was five years old when his grandfather, the
Gfeat Southerner died. Standing by his grandfather's bier
he heard some one say that the dead statesman left no one
to bear his name. The boy proudly claimed that he was 'his
grandfather's naimesake, which was of course quite true.
The whole circumstance was explained to him and he in-
sisted that he wanted to be named' for his grandfaither.
The Bishop of Mississippi, who was present was deeply
touched and in the presence of the family and close friends,
he laid his hands, one upon the boy's head, the other upoa
the cold forehead of President Davis and said:
"I christen thee Jefferson Davis".
The change of name was subsequently legalized by
legislative enactment in three slates : Louisiana, Missssippi
and Virginia. He uses his father's name with his own,
Jefferson Hayes-Davis. He graduated from Princeton, 1907,
and from Columbia as a mining engineer in 19H. He fol-
lowed this profession in the Wesft for several years, and
then settled at Colorado Springs as assistant cashier of the
First National Dank of which his father was president.
His first military experience was with the National
Guard on the Mexican border, as a gunner in a batteiry of
field artillery; and before his company was mustered out he
was promoted to the rank of First Lieutenant. On the fol-
towing August the battery entered the Federal service, and
al^ter a period of training was ordered abroad. The vessel on
which he crossed the Atlantic was with the Tuscania when
thai illfated ship met disaster; but it reached an Irish port
in safety, and First Lieutenant Davis and his comrades
crossed over to France in safety. As observation orfficer for
his battery, it was his duty to go aloft in an anchored
84
Digitized by
Google
DAVIS
balloon, watch the fire of his guns, and signal orders to
the gunners.
He married Doree Dewitt. They have two children :
Jefferson Addison Hayes-Davis, and Harriet Adele Hayes-
Davis.
William Davis Hayes, son of Joel Addison Hayes and
Margaret Howell Davis Hayes, married Elizabeth .
They have two children, Elsie Hayes and William Davis
Hayes, junior.
Digitized by
Google
Digitized by
Google
DONALDSON
DONELSON
The Donaldson family came from Scotland where the
name was spelled Donaldson. The name came from the
Christian name, Donald. (Family Names and their Story,
S. Baring Gould). In the early generations in this country
i't was variously spelled Donaldson, Donalson, Donelson,
Doneldson, Donolson and Donilson. (Virginia Militia in
Wie Revolution, J. T. McAllister). Stockley, a son of Col.
John Donelson, spelled his name several ways in signing
legal uocuments. (Ramsey's Annals of Tennessee).
Tne brothers, Col. John Donelson and William Donald-
son, lounders of the family in Tennessee, used difife^'ent
spellings. Most of the descendants of the former continue
to us^e his spelling, Donelson, while the descendants of
Wmiam use the original spelling, Donaldson, as used by
him. In this article the compiler will endeavor to use the
spelling adopted by the individiial.
The Donaldson Coat-of-Arms, dated 1312, has the single
word, **Promtus", as its motto. (Burke's General Armory).
The emigre, John Donaldson, (whose father was John
bonaldson of Scotland)^ came to America in 1716, and
settled near Delaware Bay. At this time he owned his
vessel and was engaged in the shipping business between
America and London. It is said that his father and grand-
father had been shippers. He married Gteitlierine Davies.
diaughler of David Davies and Martha Thomas Davies of
Virginia, (a sister of Samuel Davies, D. D., LL. D., third
President of Princetown College, (1761-1766) after its re-
organization). They had children:
I Jolin Donelson II.
II William Donaldson.
III Andrew Donaldson.
IV A daughter (name unknown), married Henry.
87
Digitized by VjOOQIC
NOTABLE SOUTHERN FAMILIES
I JOHN DONELSON II.
I Johe Donelson II (1720-1785) is said to have been
born in Pittsylvania County, Virginia. He married Rachel
Stockley, of Virginia, and had children:
I Alexander Donelson, never married.
II Oaitherine Donelson.
III John Donelson III.
IV Mary Donelson.
V Jane Donelson.
VI William Donelson
VII Stockley Donelson.
VIII Samuel Donelson.
IX Severn Donelson.
X Levin Donelson, never married.
XI Rachel Donelson.
XII Elizabeth Dondson.
Colonel John Donelson II was a man of education and
tichieved prominence in Virginia. "He was a burgess from
Pi'Hsylvama County in assemblies of May 1769, 1769-
1771, 1772-1774". (Virginia Biography. Tyler). Prior to
ihe Declaration of Independence he was made colonel of his
regiment of militia. (History of Tennessee. Putnam). He
was appointed several times to negotiate treaties with
Jindian tribes, and in each case was successful. He, with
ttiree other men, surveyed the boundary between Georgia
and NV)rth Carolina, wliieh, at tha-l time, ran west to the
Mississippi River. (History of Tennessee. Haywood. His-
tory of Kentucky. Butler).
One of the most remarkable adventures undertaken in
the settlement o-f the West was the voyage of the company
of pioneers with Col. John Don-elson as com-
mand'er, wiMch left the Watauga SeHlemeul, (Dec.
22, 1789), traversed the Holeton, Tennessee, Ohio
and Cuini'berland Rivers to French Lick, now Nash-
ville, arriving on. April 24, 1780. Nearly two hundred
persons made this remarkable voyage on flat boats, dug-
outs and scows, traversing dangerous rapids land constantly
surrounded by hostile Indians. In this company were his
family and tne families of a number of men who, und^r
James Robertson, had preceded them going overland
through the wilderness.
88
Digitized by VjOOQIC
DONALDSON
Col. Donelson's journal of the good boat, Adventure,
forms an important chapter in all the histories of early
Tennessee. Theodore Roosevelt says, in his Winning of
the West, "Robertson's special partner was a man named
John Donelsoii. The latter went by water and took a large
party of immigrants, including all the women and children,
down the Tennessee, and thence up the Ohio and Cumber-
land to the Huff, or French Lick, a distance of more
than two 'lihousand mil'es. Aonong them were
Robertson's entire family and Donelson*s daughter Rachel,
the future wife of Andrew Jackson, who missea by so
naiiow a margin being mistress of the White House . . . The
settlers who came by water passed through much greater
pern and haraship (than the party, under Robertson which
went overland). By a stroke of good fortune the journal kept
by bonaldsoii, the leader of the expedition, has been pre-
served. As with all the other recorded wanderings and ex-
peditions of these back-woods adventurers, it must be re-
memnered while this trip was remarkable in itself, it is es-
pecially noteworthy because, out of many such, it is the
only one of which we have a full account. . . . Donelson's
flotilla, after being joined by a number of other boats, con-
sisteo of some thirty craft fidl'told — flat boats, dug-outs,
and canoes. There were probably two or three hundred
peopW, perhaps many more, in the company. The chief
boat, tne flagship of the flotilla, was the Adventure, a great
scow, in which there were over thirty men, besides the
families of some of them". Ramsey, in his Annals of Ten-
aessee, says, 'The distance traveled on this inland voyage,
by Col. Donelson, the extreme danger in every respect
markb the expedition as one of the greatest achievements in
the seifiemeiit of our western country".
Finding French Lick surrounded by hostile Indians Col.
Donelson moved to Kentucky, where he had large interests
in land, ana reside^d there for a few years. Then, returning
to Teiiiiessee, he located on a farm near what now is Nash-
ville, where he lived until 1785, when he was shot from am-
bush, oy an Indian, and killed.
// Catherine Donelson
Oafcherine Donelson was born in Pittsylvania County,
Virginia. She married Qol. Thomas Hutohings and had
children: (1) John Mutchings (married Mary Smith); (2)
Stockley Hutchings (married Elizabeth Atwood and had
89
Digitized by VjOOQIC
NOTABLE SOUTHERN FAMIUIS
di'i'lren : (a) Mary Oaltherine HuWhings who mamed Janies
Murdiack; (b) Elizabeftfti A. Hutehings who married Andrew
J. Coffee). (3) Lemuel HutehSngs (married Owen
and '>*ad children: Alexander, Arthur, Stockley Donelson
and two daughters, names unknown) ; (4) Christopher
Hiitchings (married (1829) Louisa Ann Edwards and had
child'ren: (a) Mary Hutch'ings wlio married John H. Cross;
(b) ElizabeHh Cooke Butohings; (c) John Hutc'hings; (d)
Frank Hutchlings, killed in Civil War; (e) Jackson Hutch-
ings; (f) Fannie A. Hoitchings; (g) John Hutehings; (h)
Stockley Hutchings; (i) William Hoitchings) ; (5) Rachel
Donelson Huichlings (m^arried James Smith Rawlings) ; (6)
Mary Hoitchdngs (married Small) (7) Jennie Haiteh-
ings; (8) Thomas Hutchings; (9) Elizabeth Hutchings.
/// John Donelson III
III Jahn Donelson III (1755-1840) married (1779) Mary
Purnell (1763-1848). Captain John Donelson III was born
Jn Virginia, and his wife in Snow Hill, Maryland. They
as bride and groom, made the trip from Watauga Settle-
ment to French Lick, in 1779, on the "Adventure" in the
Company commandea by his father. Colonel John Donel-
son. They had children:
1 Chesed, died in infancy.
2 Tabitha Donelson,
3 Alexander Donelson,
4 John Donelson IV, (1787-1840), married (1823) Eliza
Butler.
5 Lemuel Donelson,
6 Rachel Donelson,
7 Mary Donelson, marrdd John Coffee,
8 William Donelson,
9 Elizabeth Donelson,
10 Catherine Donelson,
11 Chised Donelson, died in infancy,
12 Stockley Donelson,
13 Emily Donelson,
2 Tabitha Donelson (1781-1854), married (1854)
GeOTge Smith (1876-1849), and had children: (1) Mary
Smith (1798-1853), who married (1826) LafayeWe Saunders,
and had children : Augusta Saunders (1827-1898) , (married
(1845) John King (juirist). Oh«ildren: (a) Lafayette Saunders
90
Digitized by VjOOQIC
DONALDSON
King (married twice: First, Helen Ingersal; Second,
JoeepMne Strickland) ; (b) Mary Saunders King (married
(1890) L. P. Lastraj^e. Qhildren: Helen Lastrapse, who
married Valentine King Irion, land had children: Mary
OaroMne, Alfired King, Alice and Albert; Augusta Lastrapse,
wlh'o married (1894) Walter Webb Duson, M. D., and had
children: Walter, OaroHine and Donald McNaoigbton) ; (c)
Nannie M. Kdng; (d) Aajgusita Saunders Kinig, (married
lindsay Dunn Beale, (jurist). Ohildren: Lindsay Dunn
Beale II; Augusta Beale, wQio married WilHam Mercer Hall,
ajnd *iad children: William Mercer Hall II, Lindsay, and
Minnie; Anna Mariah Beale, wQik> married (1911) Gordon
Bakewell Golson, and had cWldren : Lindsay and Gordon
Bakewell Goison II; Thomas Bufnng»ton Beale, who m^-
ried(1911) Jennie Mimson, and had a chidd, William Riuf-
fln; John E. K. Beale; Robert George Beale; Phoebe L.
Beale; Helen Beale; Lafayette Saunders Beale); Tabitha
Saunders, married (1852) Andrew S. Herron. CJhild: Ma.y
Saunders Herron, who married Oharies Cecil Bird, and had
dhildren: Andirew Herron, Oharles Cecil Bird II, Tho-mas
Bufflngtonand Mary) ; (2) SaJMe Smith (1801-), who mar-
ried Thonias Waitsion, and had children: (a) Winifi^ed
Scott Watson, (married Sdlicfield) ; (b) Harriet
Watson married twice: Firsit, Orville Gage; Second,
Jaimes Douglas, dhildiren by second htusbeind: Noel and
Lulia) ; (c) George Smith Watson, (married Itwice : Chil-
dren Thomas and Mary Jane) ; (d) TabiOha Wat&on, (mar-
ried {Dwice: First, Gordon; Second, Miller.
Three Ohildren by first hoisband) ; (e) Margaret Wati^om,
(married Dunn. Children : Mary Lee, Harry Smith
and Sallie); (3) Tabitha Smith (1803-1849), wtho married
(1821) Anselm D. Bugg, and had children: (a) George S.
®ugg; (b) Samiuel Bugg; (c) Mary Saunders Ekigg, (mar-
ried (1850) William Murray. Children: Riufus Saunders
Murray, who married Minnie Milte, and *had ohildren:
Samud, Mary, (who marrde'd James Smithy and had chil-
dren: Minnie Lou (married Phillips), another
dteuughlter and two sons) ; John Dean, Cloe Mills and Wil-
liaan; Anslem Bugg Murray, who married Theda Bland
Pit2*ifugli, and had children: Mary Ettla, Theda Bland,
Pitahugh and Katie Trousdale; William Murray; George
Sttnlth Murray; John Amifield Murray; Anna Murray, who
married M. T. Carlwrighrf, and 'had children: Murray Ans-
lem, Mary Armfteld and MjTa Eugenia) ; (d) Emily Don-
91
Digitized by
Google
NOTABLE SOUTHERN PAMIUES
elsan Bugg; (4) Harry Smi'th (1806-1888), Who marr-ied
(1859) Sallie Sypert, and had children: (a) Tabrlha Don-
elson Smith; (b) N'annie Smi^Bi, (married (1880) Horatio
Berry. Ghdldren : Harry SmJ Ih Berry, Who married Georgia
Knox, and hiad children : Kaltherine Knox and Nancy; Jane
E. Berry, wlho married Oharles E. Buntin, and' had ohildren :
Charles Er^in, Rachel Oaigii^ad', Horatio Berry and Wil-
liam ; Emma Horatio Berry, Who mamied W. A. Bryan, M.
D., and had children: Ann, Elizabeth and Allen; Sarah
Crosby Berry; Julius Trousdale Berry, who m«arried Grod
Cbrneil); (5) Elizabeth Smith; (6) Jane Smith (1818-),
wiho married John J. Wherry, aind haxi ohildren: (a)
Tabitha Wherry, (married Alexand^er Cowan (a miinister of
•tihe Gospel), and had children: Sarah, and Jiane whio mar-
ried David C. Kelly) ; (b) John Whenry; (c) Emily Wherry;
(d^ William WTierry; (e) H«orry Wherry, (married Gelia
Willis "i ; (f) George 'Wherry ; (g) Augiisia Wherry^, (mar-
ried William Hamilton) ; (Jh) Daniel Wherry,, (married
Siisie Knox).
5 Lemuel DonelsoTi(1789-1832)married Elizabetih White,
(daughter of Judge Hugh Lawson White) and had chil-
dren: (1) John Donelson V (married Kate Allen. Children:
Joibn Donelson VI and Lem'uel Dondson II) ; (2) Pheriba
White Donelson (married Harper Sheppard).
6 Rachel Jackson Donelson (1791-), who married
(1809) William Eastin, and had dhildren: (1) Mary
EastSn, who married (1832) Lucius Polk, and had children:
(a) Sarah Rachel Polk, (married (1855) Robina Cadwalla-
der Jones. Ohildren: Mary Polk Jones, who inarriid
(1877) Duncan Brown Oooper, and had c^'ild^en: Sarah
(aiiarried Lucius Buroh, M. D. Child, John C), William,
Robin Jones (married Eva Lee Smith), Mary Polk, (mar-
ried Beverly R. Wilson. Ohildren : Mary and Beverly) and
Duncan Brown C?ooper II (married Dorothy Cnowe) ; Re-
becca Edward Jones; Robin Jones; Sarah Polk
Jones, wQio married (1888) James C. Bradford, and had
children : Sarah Polk and Thomas; Lucy Green Jones, who
married (1888) Stanley Bell Hemdon, and had children:
Robin C. Jones, Virginia, Rebecca and Lucy) ; (b) Mary
Drown Polk, Married (1858) Henry Clay Yealman. Chil-
dren : Mar>^ Eastin Yeatman, wfho married Thomas Shep-
herd Webb, Henry Olay, Russell Houston, Trezevani Player,
92
Digitized by
Google
DONALDSON
Jane and Lucia Polk) ; (c) Emily Donelson Polk, (married
(1860) J. Minnick Williiams. Qhildsren: Harry, Who mar-
ried Louise Piidier, Emily, Lucius Polk, Minnick, Anna
Fassman, Eliza Polk €uid PriciJla Sh^elby Williams, who
marrie'd G. W. Briggs, and' "had a son, Geor^ge Shelby) ; (d)
William Polk, (married Rebecca M'ayis) ; (e) Eliza Eastin
Polk; (f) Frances Ann Polk, (married (1866) Edward
Dillon. Children: Eid^var'd Dillon, who married Susan S.
PendMon, and' had children : Ed^ward, Edmoindi P., Mary
Unity, William Polk and Susan; James Royal Dillon;
Lucius Polk Diliton, who mamed Mary Evelyn Morton, and
had a child, Lucius Polk Dillon II; Jotin Ounning'h'am
Dillon, wfhio married May McCtung Childress; Eliza Polk
Dillon, w*ho married Robert SeH>tt Spilknan, and had chil-
dren: Frances. Polk and Robert Soott (twins), and Edward
D.;FVances Polk Dillon; Frances CJunningham Dillon); (g)
Susan Rebecca Polk, (man^ied (1866) Geiorge Campbell
Brown. Children : Lucius Polk Brown, who married twice :
First, Jessie Roberts; Second, Susan Kafflierine Massey.
Child by first wife, Jesse Roberts ; Second, Susan Katherine
Massey. Child by first wife, Campbell Hiixley Brown. Chil-
dren by second wife : Susan Massey Polk, Lazinka and
Lucia; Ewell Ridhard Brown, who married Mabel Lee;
George Caimpbell Brown II; Percy Brown, who married
Gerirudie Plunket, and had a son, Jaimes Pliunkettt; Lazinka
Oampbe'll Brown) ; (h) George Washingibon Polk, (married
(1885) Jane Jack&on. Children: Kate, George, Jane aaid
Harrys;) (2) Eliza Eastin; (3) Sus^ie E^astin; (4) Rachel
Bas»lin, who married (1842) Ridhard 0. Ouirey, M. D., and
had child*ren : Robert, and Mary who married William
WTiorton, and had dhildren : Sadie, Mary, Williaim, Richard
and Anniie; (5) John Donelson Bas'tin (1820-), who married
(1848) Atmanda Galloway, and had ohild'ren: (a) Rosa
Eastin, (married (1875) Hyder Ali Bedon, M. D. Children:
Eva, (wttio married Frank Pitltman, and had one child,
Rosa), Susie, Tulia D., (married William Hunt Buir^ess,
M. D. Qhiid!ren, Sarahs and Susan) , Hyder and Richard^ ;
(b) James Eastin; (c) Mary Polk Easltin, (married (1868)
William Liltlefleld. Children: ElizaberQi, (who married
Bmce Buckner, and had children: MaTy, Sadie, Bruce,
Elizabeth, Henry and IsabeHe), John, Preston, William and
Frank) ; (d) Susian Amanda Eastin, (married George E.
Purvis. Childl-en: Rachel (marriedi Richard Snyder, M. U.'i,
M^'ry (married G D. Andfrews, and had children : George
and WaUer), Easttn, Susie find Envily).
93
Digitized by
Google
NOTABLE SOUTHERN FAMILIES
7 Mary Donelson (1793-1871), mapried (1809) John
Coffee (1772-1833). (General John Ctoffee took part in the
Greek War and' was in the Balttle of N^ew Orle»ans). They
had children: (1) Mary Donelson Goffee (1812-1839), who
married Andrew Hutehings, and had children: Mary, John
Goffee, Ooffee, and Andrew; (2) John Donelson Goffee (1815-
1837), who mamed Mary Narcissa Brahaai, and had one
child, John Donelson Goffee II, who married Sallie Ruffln
Tucker, and had children: (a) Mary Percy Goffee, (married
Frederick H. Long. Child, Harry Lonjg) ; (b) Sarah Donel-
son Goffee; (3) Elizaberth Griaves Coffee; (4) Andrew Jack-
son Goffee (1819-1891), who married Elisjabeth Htuil6hings,
and had children : (a) Kate Goffee, (married Charles J. Mc-
Dougal. Ohil'dren : Katherine Ooffee McDooigial, who mar-
ried Qarpenter Gorges, had child, Mary; Elizabe»ffh Goffee
McDougal, who marriedi Sluart Cooper, and had children:
Elizabeth, Stuart, Kale and Elizabeth Stuart; Oaroline
Marian McDougal, whio amarried Jo^hn Land Neilson, and
had children : Caroline McDougal and Mary Gharlesworth ;
Doaigl«is Gafisel McDou'gal, wflho married Sabina Wood
Wallits, and had children: Dooiglas and David Stockton) ;
(b) Su&an Goffee, (married Lew^is G. Heilner. One child,
Katti^erine, w(ho married Ray Strath McDona;ld, and had one
dhild, Rlay SUrath McDonald II) ; (c) Frank La-rned Goffee,
(married twice: Firs*, Posey Beauregard Green; Second,
Blanch Marie Elizabeth Pifcard. Ghildt<en by flrsit wife : An-
drew Jackson Ooffee and Elizabeth Hutehings Goffee who
married Robert Navarre Gorbalay. Ohildren : Carroll
Douglas Marion and Robert Navarre Gorbalay, and had chil-
dren: Oarroll Douglas Marion and Robert Navarre Gorba-
lay II and had chSliren: Theadore, Robert and Carroll.
Ohildren by second wif k iHanirhe Marie, Catherine Copley,
Dorothy Pitard and Evelyn Mercedtes; (d) John Goffee;
(e) Andrew Jackson (Joffee; '^fj Mary Elizabeth Goffee: (g)
StocMey Hfuitchings Goffee; (h) Ellen Posey Coffee; (i)
Andrew Jackson Goffee, (married twice: Firs-t, Edith Hin-
ton: Second, Ellen Lenore Muffley. Ghild by first wife,
Luen Pope. Ghild by second wife, Lenore Jackson) ; (5)
Alexander Donelson Goffee(1821-1901), who married twice:
First. Ann Eliza Sioss ; Second, Mrs. Oamilla Madden Jones.
Ohila by flrsit, Mary Goffee, married twice: First, Ed-
ward AsbuTy O'Neall; Second', William Parke Campbell.
Qhild by first husband, Edward, who married Julia C(unper,
and had childlren: EkiVard, Camper and Amelia; (6) Rachel
Jackson Goffee (1823-1892), wh^o married .\lexander Jack-
son Dyas, and had children: Robert Dyas. and Alexander
94
Digitized by VjOOQIC
DONALDSON
Jackson Dyas who married Annie Lamar Ourry, ajid had
children: Raidhel Jackson, Hammond Ourry, Alexander
Jackson Dyas II and John Coffee; (7) Kahliorine HaiTiet
Ooffee; (8) Emily Ctoffee; (9) WiWiam Coffee (1830-1903),
who miairied Virginia Malone, and had one child, Maiy
Donelson who married Ohajples Albert Nye, and bad cliil-
djpen: (a) Virginia Coffee Nye, (imarried Irvine^;
(b) Anna Rogers Nye; (c) Charles Albert Nye If; (10)
Josiia Coffee.
9 Elizabeth Dondson (1796-) married John C. McLe-
mow, and had childt^n: (1) Mary McLamore (married
Monroe Walker, M. D. Child: Elizabeth Walker, wtoo mar-
ried Andrew Jackson Hiays, a cousin) ; (2) Caltheirine Mc-
Lemore (married Ghols»!lon. Child: Josephine Ghol-
ston, who married Rjobept Boitler Hays, a cousin, and had
children : Andl^w, William, Joseph and Willoaighby) ; (3)
John G. McLemore II (mairied Sallie Lane. Had several
children, one of Whom is John C. McLemore III).
10 Catherine Donelson (1799-1836), mamed James
Glasgow MarWn, and had children: (1) Elizabeth
Martin, who married twice. N»o descendants; (2) James
Glasgow Martin II, (1823-1904), who married (1851) Mary
Donelson, (daughter of Daniefl Smith Donelson and Mar-
garet! (Branch) Donelson). They had chi'ldlren: (a) Mar-
garet Branch Martin, (mamed twice: Pirstt, James M. Grif-
fice; Second, Andrew Watson. Children by first husband:
James H. Qriffice II, who married (1907) EsteWe McLauig'h-
lin, and had children: James Martin, and Branch Gordon
and VioKne (twins) ; Branch Donelson Grillice, who mar-
ried Gena Sollaim; David Dismukes Griiffice, who manried
(1903) Maidie Lemuman, and had children; Ruth, David.
La\^Ten«ce and Marrin ; John Sh^ite Griffice, whio maariea
(1900) Lucy Vance Harmon, and had children : John Fay and
Ada; Anrew Jackson Grifflco, wiho married (1907) Jennie
Bininer; Mary E. Griffice; Hi'llman Griffice); (b) Daniel
Donelson Martin, (married (1886) Fanny Level Spears.
Ohildren : William Lee, Mary Woodfalk, fela Victoria and
Charles Spears) ; (c) Katherine Martin; (d) Elizabeth Mar-
tin; (e) Nannie Greenway Martin, (married (1885) William
Les^lie FranMin. Children: Mary Doneteon Franklin, who
married (1906) William Hugh Blackwood, and had chil-
dren : William Hug9i Blackwood II and Mary Leslie ; Lucelia
Douglas Franklin, who married (1905) Joseph E. Johnson
and had childk*eo : William Richard and Joseph E. Johnson
95
Digitized by VjOOQIC
NOTABLE SOUTHERN FAMILIES
II; Emily Cuprey Franklin, who nwirried (1915) Walker
Pendleton; Isaac Douglas Franklin; Willia^m Leslie Frank-
lin; Rebecca Dondson Franldin) ; (f) Jmnes Glasgow Mar-
tin III, (married (1898) Jane Woodruff. Gttiild're'n: Annie
May, Mary Donelson and Jane Elizab€<th) ; (3) Catherine
Donelson Martin; (4) Mary Donelson Martin ((1818-1860),
w^ho married Robert Brownlee Currey, and tiad one cbild,
Mary^ Elizabeth Cunrey, (married Will'iaim Fox. CBiildren:
Mary ElizabeFth, Trescott, Robert R., Lewis, Marfton Albert
and Henry); (5) Emily Done-lson Martin (1825-1892), Who
martried (1846) George Washington Ourrey and had chil-
dren: (a) Mariin Ourtrey, (marked (1879) Dora Sawyers) ;
(b) Mairy Clemenltina Currey, (married (1870) Duncan
Robertson Dorras. Children: Duncan Robertson Dorris II,
who married (1899) Elizabelth Bryan, and had one child,
CaJlherine Hairdy; George Preston Dorris, who married
(1899) Edith Jenkins, and had children: Emma May,
George Preston Dorris II and Duncan Krenning; Lewis Ran-
dolph Dorris, who married (1905) Augusta Donelson, and
had children: Margareit and Lewis Randolph Dorris II;
Andrew Currey Dorris) ; (c) Robert Brownlee Ourrey.
(married (1884) Elizabeth Norton. Children: Robenl
Brownlee Currey II, Bradley Norton, Georfge Washington,
EHzabe*h (married Charles LeSueur Corneliais), Jennie
Gray, Sarah Elmira and Browndee) ; (d) Jennie Gray Cur-
rey; (e) Andrew Donedson Currey; (f) Keite Sumpter Cur-
rey; (g) George Ringold Currey. (mlarried Lillie McCarthy) ;
(h) Preston Currey; (6) Rachel Jackson Marltin; (7) John
Donelson Marlin, who married (1857) Rosalie Adiella White,
and had children: (a) John Donelson Martin II, (married
( 1882) Mary Walker Hul'l. Children : John Donelson Mar-
tin III, who married* (1909) Savi'lla Driver, and had a son,
John Donelson Martin IV; Mary Clayton Mantlin, w^ho mar-
ried (1909) Paris R. Russell) ; (b) Clark White Martin; (8)
Andrew Jackson Martin, Who married three ifcimes: First,
Elizabeth Pris^toe; Second, Anna Harris; Third, (1869 »
Rosalie Addla Martin, nee White, the widk)w of his brother,
John Donelson Martin. By his firs* wife he had children:
(a) Thomas FYistoe Martin, M. D., (married Lola Long,
Children: Hazel, Martina and Venoy) ; (b) Robert Martin;
(c) Catherine Martin. Children by his third wife : (d) Mary
Martin, (married (1898)) William F. Pro^t. Children: Wal-
ker E. and William P.) ; (e) And^w J. Martin; (f) Shelton
White Martin; (g) Rosadella Martin, (married (1907)
Heiskeli Weatherford. Ohild^ren: Mary and Joseph Heis-
kell) ; (9) Ann Hardy Martin.
96
Digitized by
Google
DONALDSON
12 St'ockley Donelson (1805) imarried (1828) Phila Ana
Lawrence (1809-1852), and had ohildl^en: (1) John PiirneM
Donelson; (2) Laura Ann Donelson (1833-1894), raarri^
W. J. Wade. Ohildren: (a) Mary Emily Wade, (mar-
ried Robert W. Thompson. Children: Laura and Malhew
Neil); (b) Matilda H^enderson Wade, (married Albert
Hadley. GhiWren: Albert, Wadie, Caroline, Laura
and Howard; (c) Caroline Wade (twin of
Ma)iilda Henderson, married David Burke Dismoikes. Ohil-
tfren: David, Susie and Stockley) ; (d) Stoekley Donelsou
Wade, married Nettie Tiu'iiley. Children: Ednelia, William
Jaanes, NKtie and Susie) ; (e) Levi Lawson Wade, (mar-
ried Uzziedean Kennedy. Children: Lizziedeam, Laura and
Caroline); (f) Laura Medora Wade, (married John Boyd
Hayes. Children: Joihn Boyd Hayes II, Susie, Laura, and
Lawrence) ; (g) John Lawrence Wade, (married Ociavia
Weaver. Child: JoJhn); (h) Susie Wade; (i) WilHam
Jams Wadj II); (3)Wdlliafln Stockley Donelson (1835-
1895) (married twice: First, Alice Ewin; Second
Medora Wade Smith. Children: (a) Mary Elizabeth Donel-
son (1882-), who married Edward R. Dabney, (b) John.
Donelson VII (1874-), who married Bettie M. Hooper; (c)
Alice E. Donelson (1876-1891); (d) Wena E. Donelson
(1880-), who married Thomas Goodall; (e) Phila Ann Don-
elson (1887-), who marri(*J Nisbel Hamibaug-h) ; (4) Mary-
Emily Donelson (1837-), (married twice: First, Joseph E.
Hoddiie; Second, WilKam B. Walton. Child by first bus-
band; (a) Laura Annie Boddie, (married (1880) Mom Ham-
mond Slliarpe. Children: Mary, Catherine, Mora an<
Laura), (^hildron by s;^coud 'husband: (b) Emily Wallon,.
iinuvifMl J(?eph M.uin Ff.rd. Children: Charles, William^
L wis, Lucien, Eugene, J()S(^j)h and Ida); (c) Carolina
Wall.' n (manifd Aiulrew Arlhur Adlams. Child, Arthur
Ad ..life); {d) Alie* WaK'nii; (f*; Fannie Wal'!.on; (f) Daisy
\\'arino, (niarri.Hi \A'iilliaiu Miller IHsmaikes. Child. Joha
l>iM:unkvS)); (5) Lawn are Don.'lstui (1845-65); (6) Caro-
lina Minnrva Dun; Lst n, w'iio married AKivd Gibson Merritt^
and had children: Annie LavvriMice, Alfred Gibson Merritt
II (married l)(uiida Turner), Su^ckiey Donelson (married
Man.de Logue), Ida J(>hnsi)n and Lawrence.
13 Emily Donelson (1807-1836) married Andrew Jack-
son Donelson. son of Samuel Donelson and Mary (Smith)
Don 'Ison. Children under 'he father, Andrew Jacksoa
Di n:dson.
Afler the dealh of his wife Andrew Jackson, President-
97
Digitized by VjOOQIC
NOTABLE SOUTHERN FAMILIES
elect appointed Major Andrew Jackson Donelson his
private secretary, and invited Mrs. Donelson to officiate as
Mistress of the White House.
**She was born in Davidson County, Tennessee, and
educated at the old Academy, in Nashville. Of rare per-
sonal loveliness and splendid intellect, no expense or care
was spared t?o fW her for the high position she was destined
to fill in society. Though her childhood was spent in what
wsjS then called the *backwood's', it was not passed in
obscurity for her close rela'tionship with Mrs.
Andrew Jackson, the public prominence of her near rela-
tions. Generals Smith, Coffee and H'ays, and the wealth
and high standing of hti lather, early made her familiar
with camps and crowds, and developed that courtly grace
and ease of manner for which she was afterwards so pre-
eminent .... Her tact and grace contribu«ted much to render
General Jackson's term such a brilliant epoch in American
history". (The Ladies of the White House, Holloway).
IV Mary Donelson
IV Mary Donelson nwirried Jdhn GalTrey. They lived
iin New Orleans, Louisiana, and had children: (i) Joffer-
:Son Qaffrey, (2) Duuedson GafTpey who married Lydia Mur-
phey, and had one son, Uondson CafTrey II, who marrie»d
(1869) Beifhia Richardson, and had chii-drtMi: (a) Donol-
ison Gaflfrey III, (married Martha Taylor. Children:
Katherine, Martin, Bethia Oonels^dn CafTrey IV, Mary
Louise, Emma, St John Liddell and John Taylor) ;
(b) Frank Riehardbon Gall'rey; (c) Ralph P]arle Gaffrey
(married Letice Deenir. ChildiTu: Letice Eula'lie, Frank
Richardson and Earle Deenir) ; (d) John Murphy
Gaffrey, (married Mary Frere. Children: John Murphy
Donelson Thomas and Mary) ; (e) Gertrude Gaffrey, (mar-
ried Henry Haywood Glassie. Ghildi^n : Donelson Gaffrey,
Gertrude and Henry Havwood' Glassie II); (f) Bethia
Gaffrey; (g) St. John Liddell Gaffrey; (h) Charles Smith
Gaffrey, (married Cora Nell Hunt. Child, Cora Nell); (i)
EdAvard Gaffrey; (3) Jane Gaffrey; (4) Geffrey, who
married VanDorn, and hiad childiren: (a) Earle
VanDorn, (General in Confederate Army during War Be-
tween the States) ; (b) Aaron VanDorn; (c) Jane VanDorn.
(married Vertner. Child, who married
M. D. Leonard;) (d) VanDorn, (married
Lacy) ; (5) Nancy Gaffrey, who married' Jo'hn Jenkins, M.
98
Digitized by
Google
DONALDSON
D., and had childivn: Elizabeth Majors, Mary Donolson,
John Jenkins II ('had a son John Jenkins III), Nancy
Rachel, Sophia VanDoni (married McGarreHi,
William Banks and Donelson Gaffrey; (6) Oaffrey (a
daugh'ter who married Walker^ and !had a son, T. C.
Walker; (7) Mar>' CafTrey, who Tnarrieid John Khox, and had
childTen : William L. Knox and Sarah Knox, who married
George Was-hingfon Sevier (see Sevier Family, Notable
Southern Families, Vol. I, p. 201) and had children: (a)
Mary Kate Sevier, (piarried Robert Joseph Shields Dunbar.
Ghildren: Nannie Bell who married CSnarles P. Kanning,
and Robert Shields Dunbar II) ; (b) Andrew Jaok&on Se-
vier, (married Golumbia Elizabeth Dobyns. Children:
Sallie Knox, Golumbia Simpson (who married William H.
U'tz, and had one c'hild, Merrick). Andrew Jackson Sevier
II (married* Mary Day, and had one dhild, Andrew Jackson
Sevier III^, Annie Ghampe (married Joseph Agee, and had
a child. (]urtis), Jennie A^f^rfner (married T. Fred Young,
and had one child, Elizabeth), Mary Kate (married
W. T. Ward. Ghildren, William Henry, Kathryn and
Louise) and Ada E. (married A. G. Williamson)) ; (c) Jane
Vertner Sevier, (\niarried twice: First, Geoi*ge Glark; Second,
Adolphus Watson Harris. Child by first husband, George
Sevier Clark; Chilct by second husband, Sadie Knox Harris^
who married George Henry Sager) ; (d) Eliza Sevier, (mar-
ried William E. Jeffries.' Children: Evan Shelby, Mary
Dunbar, Wilhaju T. Jefferies II and George Sevier.
r Jane Donelson
V Jane Donelson married (1787) Colonel Robert Hays,
who was born in Scotland. On coming to America h(^
located ait Nashville, later at Havsville, Tennessee. Thev
had children: (1) Stockley Donelson Hays (1788-1831),
who married Lvd'ia (Lyda) Bnller, and had a child named
Richard Jacksiin Hays- (1822-1899), who married (1847)
Sarah Ann Ballon, and had one child, Stockley Donelsoji
Hays ( 1852- 1 905 V, who married (1876) Ida Gertrnd<e Sli»-
vali, and had children: (a) Katherine Stovall Hays (1877-),
(married (1898) James Ernest Edenton. One child, James
Ernest Edenton II (1909)) ; (b) Richard Hartwell Hays; (c)
Sarah Ballon Hays (1884-), (married (1903) Edwin Smith-
son Rogers. One child, Edwin Smithson Rogers II (1905-) : ;
(do Margan^-t Angelyn Hays, married (1911) James P. Mc-
Millin; (e) Ida.GeHrude Ha\-s (1889-), (married (1911)
Digitized by
Google
NOTABLE SOUTHERN FAMILIES
Reuben H. Soott) ; (f) Eleanor Donelson Hays (1891-),
(married (1919) Elbert S. Stegall. One diild, Elbert S.
Stegall II (1920-)) ; («) Stockley Donelson Hftys; (h) Henry
DonelsonHays (1897-) ; (2) Marthia Hiays (1791-1856), who
mapried William Butler, M. D.; (3) Williaim Hays; (4)
Sajmuel Jackson Hays (1800-1865), who married (1829)
Frances Middleton, and had child^n : (a) Andrew Jackson
Hays (1830-1878), (married ElizabeKh Walker, a cousin.
Children: Samuel Jackson Hays II; James Walker Hays
(-1862), (miairied Minnie Bolster, and Wad children : James
Walker Hteiys II, Mary, Daniel S., Frances, Mildired and
George) ; John McLemore Hays, (married Mary Gregory,,
and h€ui children: Joseph Gregory, Ida Myrtle (married
James E. M. White. One child', Dorris White), John Mc-
Lemore Hays II)); (b) Mary Hays; (c) James Hays; (d)
Rachel Jackson Hays; (e) Elizabeth Hays; (f) Frances La
Motte Hays(-1891), married twice: First, Walter Preston, no
issue. Second, Lucius Battle, M. D., and <had children :
WaHer Preston and Pickney) ; (g) Robert Butler Hays
(1840-1909), (married Josie Gohlsrton. Children: Andrew
William, Joseph and Willoughby) ; (h) John Middleton
Hays (1843-), (married (1869) Sallie Parker Ganithers.
Children : John Middleton Hay II. Frances Caruthers (mar-
ried (1892), James Caruthers, Samuel J. (married (1904),
Musi(iora McCorry (married (1902), Stoddert, Mary
Caruthers, Florence Parker (married' (1902), Elinor Vir-
ginia (-1909) and Trimble Middleton) ; (i) Samrnel Jackson
Hays; (j) Martha Hays; (k) Rebecca Hays; (1) Lydia
Hays; (m) Patricia Hays; (5) Rachel Hays, w4io married
Robert Buitler; (6) Narcissa Hays; (7) Mary Hays; (8)
Elizabeth Hays, who married Robert I. Chesiler.
VI William Donelson
VI William Donelson married (1796) Charily Dickinson^
and had children: (1) Mary Donelson, (married Dr.
Hamblen); (2) Severn Donelson, (married Mary Sampson^
and had children: George, William and Rachel) ; (3) Jacob
Donelson (1801-), who married (1825) Agnes Sampson, and
had children: (a) Martha Donelson (1826-1871), ( married
six times. By second husband, Thomas Patton, she had one
child, William; By »her fifth husband, Edward Litllebridge,
she had children: Edward Litllebndge II and William
Terry); (b) William Alexander Donelson (1828-1882),
(married (1850) Laura Beaty. Children; David Agnes.
Robert, Mary Adelaide) ; (c) Micajah Terryl Donelson; (d)
100
Digitized by VjOOQIC
DONALDSON
John Coffee Donelson; (e) George Sampson Donelson; (f)
Aignes Charily Donelson (1835-1875), ( married Liewitt
Clinton Thompson. Children: Odeneal, who married
Joseph H. Bishop, and had Sarah) ; (g) Jacob Dickerson
Donelson (1837-), (married Mary Smitti; (h) Andrew Jack-
son Donelson; (i) James K. Polk Donelson; (j) Robert M.
Biirton Donelson; (4) Marthia Donelson (1809 1873), who
married twice: First, Robert M. Burton; Second, Paul An-
derson. Children by first husband: (a) Elizabeth (Charity
Burton (1827-), (married Ralph Martin. Children: Robert
Martha, William Burton, Sallie Walker (married J. P.
Eastman, andl ?iad one child, Marion), Teonple 0. Harris
(miarried Bessie Williamson, and had children : Marguerite
Kirkpatrick and Temple 0. Harris II). Minnie Nelson (mar-
ried Judge W. A. Roane, grancteon of Governor Koane, of
Tennessee, and had cJhdldren: Bessie Donelson, Temple,
Ralph, Archibald, Ena Alice, Mary Frost, Minnia, Gladys,
James and) Evelyn) ; Martha Donelson Martin (marrfed
Henry E. Williams, and had children: Percy Warner,
Henry E. Williams IT, Ralph Martin, Burton Heath, Thelma
Burton, William and Robert Burton), Ralph Martin, (mar-
ried Alexander Wythe Whitaker, and had children; Alex-
ander Wythe Whifitaker II and Ralph)) ; (b) William Don-
elson Burton (1829-), married Minnie (or Mary) Nelson
Children: John Nelson Burton, who married Daisy Wade;
Sallie Burton, who married W.. E. Drake; Robert Burton;
William Donelson Burton;) (c) Andrew Jackson Burton
(1831-1862), (married Caroline (or Fanny) Smith. One
child, Geor^ Washingfbon) ; (d) Robert Moalgomcy fla-
ruthers Burton (1834-), (married Jennie Vogeme. (Chil-
dren: Beulah, Cornelia, Robert Mon^-gomery and Nora)^
(5) Elizabeth Hays Donelson, who married Robert A. Bur-
ton, and hadi children: (a) Martha Burton; (b) Mary M.
Burton, (married (1867) John M. Williams. Ghildi^n:
Josiah Burton Williams, wiho married Kiftie C. Cunning-
ham, and had children : John Maxey, Walton, Mary Burton
and Josi'aih Burton Williams II; Robert Percy Williams,
who married Mary Phillips, and had one chiM, Robert
Percy Williams II); (c) Alfred M. Burton; (d) William
Burton; (e) Emma G. Burton; (f) Ellen S. Burton (married
Hugh M. McAdoo. Ghild-ren: Mary Elizabeth (married F.
E. Goilick. One child), H^gb, Porter (married A. Ander-
son), Alfred H. and Mary Burton) ; (6) Milberry Donelson,
(married John McGregor. Children : (a) Martha McGregor,
who married Temple 0. Harris, no issue; (b) Mary Mc-
101
Digitized by
Google
NOTABLE SOUTHERN FAMILIES
Gi»egor( 1826-1904) who married Golonel Patrick Anderson,
and had children: Times Anderson; Lovie Anderson; (mar-
ric»»d Garmott Cobb, and hud children; Lila. Cobb who mar-
ried Selh Gordan, Joe Cobb, and Gaii^no^fct Ashley Gobb) ;
Berry Anderson; Paul Anderson; Edgar Poe Anderson;
4)onelson Anderson; Lady AndJ&rson, (married Temple
Bowling. OMldi*en: Temple BowMng and Ellie
Bowling who niairried Barnes, and had
two sons); Sallie Erskine Anderson; (c) Flowers Mc-
Grt^gor, who nmrried Pannie Roane, no issue; (d) Donel-
son McGregor, who never married. He was a colonel la
the Confederate Army and was killed at the Battle of Mur-
freesbopo; (e) Andrew McGregor, who served in the Con-
federate Army as Captain of the Fourth Tennessee Cavalry,
married Eudora Anderson, and had children: John Mc-
Gregor; Horde McGregor who married D. A. McKnight, and
had one child, Paul; Andrew McGregor; Paul Brit ton Mc-
Gregor: Leonard McGregor wtiomarried Edward A. Barbour
and had children: McGregor, Edward and Mary Ellis;
Temple Harris McGregor who married Nellie Herndon, and
had ch'ild'ren: Douglass McGregor, ^and Mardotta; Eudora
McGregor; Graeme McGregor who married Rutledge Smith
and had children: Albert Perrine, McGregor and Dollie;
Sallie Ashe McGregor, Frank Monroe McGregor and Dewit/t
McGregor, M. D.; (f) Milberry McGregor, (married
McKissack, and had a daugliter, Mollie) ; (8) Andrew Jack-
son Donelson (1815-), \vho married twice: First,
Nelson; Second, Neilson. He had children: (a)
Catherine Donelson, (married Ellis) ; (b) Alice
Donelson, (married McFadden) ; (c) Louisa Donel-
son, (married Grichlow. Children: James and a
daughter who married Jake Boyles) ; (d) Williaim Donel-
son; (e) John Donelson; (f) Andrew Donelson, (married
Mrs. Robert Burton. Children: And'rew Jackson Donelson
II, and a daughter who anarried Crutchert, and had
a son, Andrew J. Donelson) ; (g) Elizabe^th Donelson, mar-
ried Lewen) ; (h) Mamie Dondson, (married
Breau. One child, ATlie) ; (i) Sallie Donelson; (9) Rachel
Donelson; (10) Alexandler S. Donelson; (11) William
Donelson II.
VII Stockley Donelson
VII Stockley Donelson married Elizabeth Martin, nee
Glasgow, widow of John Martin. No issue.
102
Digitized by
Google
DONALDSON
T7// Samuel Donelson
VIII Smnuel Donolson (-1802) married (1797) Mary (or
Polly) Smith, and had children:
i Andrew Jackson Donelson,
2 Daniel Smith Donelson,
3 John Donelson, died young. :
1 Andrew Jackson Donelson (1799-1871) married twice:
First, Emily Donelson, daughter of John Donelson and
Mary (Purnell) Donelson; Second, Elizabeth Anderson
Randolph nee Martin, (daughter of James Glasgow Martin
and Katherine (Donelson) Martin), a niece of his first wife.
Andrew Donelson graduated at the U. S. Military
Academy. While Second Lieutenant, Engineers, he served
as Aidt-de-Camp to General Andrew Jackson, while the
latter was Territorial Governor of Florida ((1821-1823).
"On Jackson's election to the Presidency he became his
confidential adviser and private secretary, continuing in
that capacity until the close of his second administration.
He was Minister to the R-ei)ublic of Texas in 1845.
In 1846 he was appointed Minister to Prussia, and, in
1848, to the Federal Government of Germany, which office
he resigned in 1849. In 1856 he abandoned the Democrats
and joined the American party, receiving the nomination
of Vice-president on the ticket with Millard Fillmore'*.
(Cyclopedia of American Biography, Appleton).
(1) Andrew Jackson Drmelson; (2) Mary Emily Donel-
son (first child born in the \\'hitte House) (born in 18:^9,
and (lied 11)05), married'. (185*^) John Alexand'er Wilcox
(was a nuMTuber of the (^ionfederate Congress). They had
children: (a) Andnnv Donelson Wilcox, (married Ida R.
Seyni(;ur. (ihildwn: Cadlmns MarceHus 'an'df Pauline Sey-
nvoinri ; (b) Mary Rachel Wilcox; (3) John Samuel Donel-
son; (4) Rachel Jackson Donelson; Children by second
wife: Daniel S. Do>nelson; Andrew Jackson Donelson by his
second wife, Elizabelh Anderson Randolph, had no chilA»en;
(5) Daniel Snulh Donelson II; (0) MarWn Donelson (184(i-
1889) (was born in Berlin, Germany. He married Eliza
Glenn, (-1888) and had children: (a) Glenn Donelson, who
married Louise Ginon, and had one 'Child, Louise; (b)
Marlin Donelson, who was a sergeant in the U. S. Navy) ;
William A. Donelson(1848-1901) (wasbornatFrankforl-bn-
the-Main, Germany. He married Bettie Mizell, and had one
child, William A. Donelson II) ; (8) Vinet Donelson (1854*
1913) (married Mary JBrown, daughter of Gov. Neil S.
103
Digitized by VjOOQIC
NOTABLE SOUTHERN FAMILIES
Brown, of Tennessee) ; (9) Katrene Donelson (died young) ;
(10) Lewis Randolph Donelson (1856-) (married (ISSO)
Louisa DeSaules McAllister (1856-) (see Rhea family).
CJhi'l'dpen: (a) Lewis Ran^dlolph Donelson II, (1881) who mar-
ried Katherine GampbRll,«and had€hil'dren: Lewis Randolph
Donelson III and William Campbell Donelson; (b) Elsie
Donelson (1883-) who married Donald White McKeller,
and had children: Lady Carolyn, Elsie and Marion Craw-
ford) ; (11) Rose Donelson (died in infancy) ; (12) Andrew
Jackson Donelson III (1861-1914) (married Sallie Taylor,
and had' children: (a) Harry Donelson; (b) Andrew
Jackson Donelson IV, who married Nancy Busby; (c)
Frank Donelson; (d) Helen Donelson, who married
Powell; (e) Anna Donelson; (f) Eliza Donelson).
2 Daniel Sntith- Donelson, married Margaret Branch,
(daughter of John Branch, who was Governor of North
Carolina, Secretary of the N^avy, and twice Governor of
Florida)*. They had children: (1) Elizabeth Branch Donel-
son (1831-), who married (1849) William Williams, and
had chil'dlren: (a) Margaret Branch Williams, (married
(1871) Wal'ter Somtt Davis. Children: William Henry and
Bessie) ; (b) Mary Elizabeith Willi^ams; (c) Evander Mc-
Iver Williaims, (married Lizzie Bates. Children; Wiili«m
Dates and Elizabeth); (d) Sallie Phillips Williams, (mar-
ried Nicholas Love. (]hild':'en: Willi/irn Aic1v(M' and Donel-
son) ; (e) Will'i'am Henry Williams; (f) Kmnia llorton
Williams, (nmrrie^d William Louis Disnuikes); (^) Eula
Ramsey Williams, (imarrM'ct Robert Vaughn. C/hildren:
Bessiie Donelson an(d! Emma Baxter) ; (2) Mary Ann Donel-
son (1834-), whoimarried (IWH James Glasgow Marlin II.
(The children are given undo? th^ father) ; (S) Sarah Smith
Donelson (1836-1869), who married (1856) William Henry
Bradford, «and had children: (a) Nannie Bradford, (mar-
ried Williaim Phelps. CliiMron. Sarah Bmdford. Rolx*rt
and Bradford); (b) P]nuly nra«1ford; (4) Emily Donelson
(1838-), who married (1«S60: James E. Horlon, and had
child'ren: (a) Daniel D. Hovfon; (b) Lucy Horton: (e)
Margareit Donelson Horton, (married twice: First, John
Tanner; Second, McA Lewis. Children by second husband:
James Edward, and William G.) ; (d) Saran B. Horlon; (e)
Mary Rebecca Horton ;(f) Emily Donelson Hortan, (married
(1894) Thomas McCleHand. One child, Robert); (g) Jessie
Donelson Horton, (married (1900) Jack Wright Frost. One
chiM, Jack Wright Frost II) ; (h) James Edwin Horton; (5)
Rebecca Williaims Donelson; (6) James Branch Donelson
104
Digitized by VjOOQIC
DONALDSON
; 1843-1912), \whoiniaiTied (1867) Josephine Evans, and had
eMldren: (a) Daniel Sanith Donelson; ^b} John Evans
Donelson, (jnamed twice: First, Katie Lee Cole; Second,
Helen Eichelber^. Child by first wife, John Lee) ; (c)
Susan Hopkins Donelson; (d) Augusta Frances Donelson,
(imarried (1906) Lewis Randolph DoTPis. Children: Mar-
giaroft Dorris and Lewis; Randolph Dorris II) ; (e) Margaret
Branch Donelson; (f) James Branch Donelson III; (g)
Eniily Hillman Donelson, (married Albert Edwanl Whalley.
One child, Albert Edward Whalley II); (7) Samuel Davis
Donelson; (8) Martlha Bradford Donel^n, (1847-1893), who
married (1867) John M. Shu te, and had ohiBdlren: (i; Mar-
garet Lee Sh'ute, (married Gdllx'rt G. Bradbury. Children :
Gillx^rt, Robert. Clark and Ruth) ; (b) Mary Donelson Shoite,
(married Henrj- Smith Dunn. Children: Louise Hamilton
Dunn, who married W<)odfoi^dJ Hall Dunn, and had chil-
dren : Mary Louise anid a son; Harry Smith Dunn); (c)
Jo'hn Branch Sh'U'te, (married Lizzie Dunn. Children: .Mary,
Elizabeith Branch antd John Donelson) ; (d) Martha Brad-
ford Shute, (married Edward Dunn. Children: John Don-
elson, Edward, Martha Donelson, Mai'garet Lee and
William); (0) Susan Branch Donelson (1848-1871), who
nmrriei.l; (1866) Marcus L. Diswmkes, and had children:
Daniel Donelson, Jaimes D., and Marcus L. Disonukes II;
(10^ John Branch Donelson, \^^ho married Jennie Alex-
ander; (11) Daniel Smith Donelson II (1853-1914), who
married (1890) Florence Hood, and had children: Mar-
gaiM'l Susan DouhIsou, and Samuel Donelson who married
(1913) Florence' DieW.
IX Severn Donelson
IX Severn Donelson was born in Virginia, in 1773, and
died October 1818. He marrie'd Elizabeth Rucker, who was
born June 8, 1782, and died March 31, 1828. They had
children:
1 John Donelson II
2 Samuel Donelson
3 Andrew Donelson, later Andrew Jackson
4 Thomas Jefferson
5 Alexander Donelson
() Rachel Donelson
7 Lucinda Rucker Donelson
1 John Donelson II (1807-1879), married twice: First,
(1833) Laura Matilda LawTence (1815-1844); Second,
(1849) Delia Catherine Waters (1824-). Children: by Orst
105
Digitized by
Google
NOTABLE SOUTHERN FAMILIES
wife: (1) Caroline Mine-rva Donel&on (1834-1895), who
married' (1856) Alexander Whyte Whitaker, and had
children: (a) Laura Maude Whitaker, (married J. William
Berry) ; (b) WilMaan Henry Whitaker, (married (1887)
Eva Hall. Child, William Wlijile) ; (c) Alexander Whyte
Whitaker II, (married (1890) Ralph Martin. Children:
Alexandler Whyte Whitaker III, aiud Ralph Martin Donel-
»on) ; (d) Leven Donelson Whitaker, (married Mrs. Bettie
Jackson; (e) George Campbell Whitaker; (2) Leven Donel-
son; (3) Benjamin Rlsley Donelson; 1(4) Elizabeth Ann
Donelson. Children by second wife: (5) Laura Elma Don-
elson (1849-1903), who married (1868) James Hudson, and
had children: (a) Virginia Grace Hudson, (married H. P,
Pearson. OhiPdIren: Edna Grace, Wilber Preston, Benjamin
Donelson, Sarah Elma, Macaja Lyle, Henrj^ Lawrence and
Chester Alan) ; (b) Donelson Hudson, (married Agatha
Jones. Child, And'rew Jackson) ; (c) Lena Rembert Hudson;
(id) Marion Emmett Hudson, (married Rella Shire. Chil-
dren: Marion Douglas, Marjorie and Ru^th Elma); (e)
Delia Waters Hu»dlson, (married Shelly Blackwood. Chil-
dren: Jessie Lee (married Henry W. Jett), Nellie D., Mollie
Ida, Jaimes Hudson, Risley^ Nona Catherine, Louise Florence
and Mary Corinne) ; (f) Hisley Zenonia Hudson; (g) Ben-
jamin Wallace Hudson; (h) James Rembert Hudson, mar-
ried Eva Clark) ; (i) Charles Talbol Hudson, (married
Carrie Brown. Ghildlren: Rembert Carlisle, Charles Talbot
Hudson II, James Davidson and Marion Brown) ; (j)
Elma Donelson Hudson, (married T. B. Shoemaker. Chil-
dren: Crystal Wannita and James Rembert); (6) Delia
Corinne Donelson; (7) William Severn Donelson; (8)
Daniel Smith Donelson; (9) Rachel Donelson; (10) Mary
Waters Donelson, who married twice: First, E. B. Kelly;
Second, William Wood.
2 Samuel Donelson (1810-), married 'twice: First Eliza-
beth Eastin; Secoridf, Jane Royster. Children by first wife:
John, Samuel and Alexander. Child by second \vife : Linnie
Donelson, who married Cixjw^s, and had one child,
Linnie.
3 Andrew Donelson (Andrew Donelson and Thomas
Jefferson Donelson were twins, born December 4, 1804).
His aunt, Rachel (Donelson) Jackson 'took Artdli^w, when
he was a few days old, to her home, the Hermit«ago, for the
poirpose of relieving his mother. After a few days she and
General Jackson reqoiested tha^ the child be given to them.
This request being granted General Jackson went before
106
Digitized by
Google
DONALDSON
ttie Legislature asnd foninally adopted the child, cheinging
his name to Andrew Jackson, Jr. (For his family see under
his adopted mother, Rachel (Donelson) Jackson).
4 Thomas I>onelson (twin of Amdrew Donelson later
Andrew Jackson. Born December 4, 1804), married Emma
Farquar. They had' children: (1) Fannie Donelson, who
married Gatzy; (2) Eliza Yorke Donelson. who mar-
ried Bernard Adolphus Hoopes, and had one child, Eliza-
beth Yorke, who married Josiah Bedon II.
5 Alexander Donelson (1816-1887), married (1841) Ka!te
Royster, anidi had children: (1) Helen Donelson, who mar-
ried (1866) Williajii McLean, and had children: Donelson,
Helen, Katie and Durell; (2) Richard Doneilson, who mar-
piod (1874) Faninie Bragg, and had children: (a) Mary
Donelson; (b) Richard Sampson Donelson, (married' Mary
Armistead. CShildren : 'Elizabeth Armistead, Richard Samp-
son Donelson II, and Fannie Rosalie) ; (c) Alexander Don-
elson; (d) Armistead Donelson; (e) Kate Donelson; (3)
Alexander Donelson; (4) Sarah Jackson Donelson, wjio
married Winchester liake, anid had one child, Henry, who
married! Ne'ttie Wilson.
7 Lucinda Rucker Donelson (1812-), married (1830)
George W. Martin. They had children : (1 ) Jackson Martin,
who married Mary Barr Warfield, and had children : Marie
Griffith, George Washington (marriddi Olive Graves Ellis),
Harriet Elizabeth (married Charles Meadowcrof t) , and
William Pollock; (2) George Martin; (3) Elizabeth Donelson
Martin, who married Jacob Melchoir Holla, and had chil-
dren: (a^) Stella McKnight Holla, (quarried Richard Pinkney
Lake. Qhildren: Richard Henry, Estelle Hoffa, Elizabeth
Donelson (imarrieicJ Lee Damei\)n Jones. Children : Eliza-
beth Donelson and Lee Dameron Jones II), Robert Pinkney
Lake II, Edith Read, Adele Dorothy, Donelson Martin, Alice
Maury and Qharles Hoffa) ; (b) George W. HolTa; (c) May
Hoffa, (married (1888) George Read. Children: Mary,
George Reed II £uid Philip Courtney; (d) Charles Bell Hoffa;
(e) William Brand' Hoffa, (^married Velma Cloud. Chil-
dren: Louisa, Elizabeth Marxian and William Brand Hoffa
II); (f) Adele Donelson Holla; (g) Henry Hoffa.
A7 Rachel Donelson
XI Rachel Donelson was born in Virginia, in 1777, and
died at the Hermitage, near Nashville, Tennessee, Dec. 22,
1828. She married twice: First Capt. Lewis Robards, of
Kentucky. Second Gen. Andrew Jackson. She had no
107
Digitized by VjOOQIC
NOTABLE SOUTHERN FAMILIES
children but she and Gen. Jackson adopted Andrew, a son
of Severn Donelson, (q.v.).
Rachel Donelson's first marriage proved a most un-
fortunate alliance and, after her friendship and marriage to
Gen. Andrew J<ackson, was useKl as an excuse for the vent
of fierce party spirit for, in those days, political animosity
respected neither sex nor the most sacred relationships of
life. Holloway, in Ladies of the White House, says, "The
cruel misrepresentations of her husband's political oppo-
nents had crushed her heart, and ended her days before he
took possession of llhe home of the Presidents. She was
denied the gratification of accompanying him to Washing-
ton, and of gracing the White House, but she was, even in
death, the President's wife, and as siach is ranked". Con-
tinuing, she gives a full and just history of the important
events in this woman's life, and shows her to have been of
noble character and superior sense, beloved by all who
came in contact with her, and the adored wife of a dis-
tinguished husband whose honors and responsibilities she
shared. It was for 'her that Gen. Jackson built the
Hermitage.
Dying, as before saiid, a few weeks after her husband's
election to the Presidency, she was denied the privilege of
sharing the honors of thiat position with hiim, but i'h was her
niece whom he selected as the presiding Mistress of the
White House, and it was her nephew wnom he had pre-
vimisly adopted as his son and heir, giving to him his
name, Andrew Jackson, (born the son of Severn-Donelson
and Elizabeth (Rucker) Donelson.)
Andrew Jackson II married (1831) Sarah Yorke (daugh-
ter of PHer Yorke, of Philadiolphia, whose grandfather.
Judge Yorke, held an appointment under the crown or
Great Britain, prior lo the Revolution). Marrj'ing soon
after the inauguration of President Jackson, Mrs. Jackson
Jr. made her entree to the White House as a bride. *'To
settle a question of precedence between Mrs. Jackson, Jr.
and Mrs. Donelson, who were both inmates of the Presi-
dent's house, he said to Mrs. Jackson, *you, my dear, are
Mistress of the Hermitage, and Emily is Hostess of the
White House.' Both were sa/tisne-d with this decision").
(Ladies of the White House, Holloway).
After the rf»tirement -of President Jackson to private life
she assumed the arduous duties of the Mistress of ^the Her-
mitage, where she lived until her death at an advanced age,
108
Digitized by
Google
DONALDSON
Children af Andrew Jackson II amd Sarah ( Yorke) Jack-
»an: (1) Rachel Jackson (1832-)), wbo married (1853)
Jobn Marsihall Lawrence, the •offlcial custodian of the An-
dawv Jackson 'Historical Home, The Hermitage), and had
children: (a) Sarah Yorke LawTence, married Charles Winn,
M. D. Child, Law.rence, who married Minnie Henderson and
had a child, Marion) ; (b) Annie Lawrence (married
Joshlua Smith. Children: William Walton and Rachel Jack-
son) ; (c) Andrew Jackson Lawrence, (nifirried twuce: First,
Emina George; Second, Julia Millican. Children by first
wife: Andrew Jackson Lawrence II (married Sarah Schell)
and Marie LawTence. Children by second wife: Mary
Looiise, James Walton and Ed'ward! Montgomery) ; (d)
Carrie Lawrence, (married William D. Bradfield, a minister.
Children: Florence, Landon, James Lee and John Law-
rence) ; (e) Samuel Jackson LawTence, (married Maude V.
Johnson. Children: Samuel Jackson Lawrence II, Maude
Wanda, John Marsihall and Clifton Hyde) ; (f) John Mar-
shall Lawrence; (g) Marion York Lawrence, (married John
Cleaves Symmes II, Sue Rae, 'and Marion Yorke) ; (h)
William Walton Lawrence, (married' Mary Fisher. Child,
Edith Eudora) ; (i) Thomas Jefferson Lawrence; (2) An-
drew Jackson HI (1834-), (served) in the War Between the
States as Colonel in the Confederate Army). He married
Amy Rich (1920), of Ohio, and had children: (a) Andrew
Jackson IV, (married Marion Oaulkins. One child. Amy
Lee); (b) Albert Marble ; (3) Samuel Jackson; (4) Thomas
Jefferson Jackson; (5) Robert Jackson.
Andrew Donaldson
Andrew Donaldson is said to have been born in Virginia
and moved to middle Tennessee where he resided until his
death, in 1870. He was a descendant of Colonel John Donel-
son, said to be a grandson. He married Isabella Luckey, of
middle Tennessee. After his death his widow and her sons
moved to Ooryelle County, Texas. They had children:
(1) John Marshall Donaldson (married Harriet , and
had children: Andrew and Isabella;) (2) Jasper Donaldson
(never married) ; (3) Harriett Donaldson (married Arthur
Williams, no issue); (4) Mary Donaldson (1826-4902),
(married, in Tennessee, Mas>lerson Qoleman McCormick
Abernathy, and moved to Texas. Children (a)
John Sterling Abernathy (1848-), who married
Rosa Beckham, no issue; (b) Charles Edgar Aber-
nathy (1850-), who married Benjamin Smith; Pink
109
Digitized by
Google
NOTABLE SOUTHERN FAMILIES
Abernathy who married Amanda Bell; Isabella
Abernathy who mairied John Reese; Etta Abernathy
who married Mike Laxton; Susan Abernathy; Luther Aber-
nathy; (c) Frances Aline Abernathy (1852-), who married
George Riser, and had one child, Gem Riser who married
John Petty; (d) Mary Florence Abernathy (1854-), who
married June L. Gogdelle, an'd had children : Lena Gogdelte
who married Lucien SuMle; Bei^thia Gogdelle who married
James Atkins, and had children, Florence, Tad, Guy,
RTtha and Rhea; Lillian Oogdfelle who married William
Erskin; Marvin Gogdelle who married Olga ; Wyatt
Gogdelle who married Mary Alexander; Starley Gogdelle
who married Alma Bounds; Beulah Gogdelle who married
Samuel Scott; Ella Gogdelle who married Eugene Acock;
Catherine Gogdelle who married Stuart Qdelle; Dougless
Gogdelle; (e) Orpha Dorin Abernathy (1856-), who
married Frederick Stith Jackson, and had children: Walker
G. Jackson, who married Elizabeth Stroud; Mary Pearl
Jackson; John Gillman Jackson, who married Rue Bertha
Roberts; Zulette Jackson who married Duwaine Hughes,
and had children: Loring, Jackson. Katherine, and Frances;
(f) Isabella Andella Abernathy (1858-), who married Peter
S. Kauffman, and had children : Mary Lawrence Kauff-
man; Philip Sterling Kauffman, who married Margaret
Mabel Harper; Ethel Rhea Kauffman, who married Bell
Stephen Huey, and had children: John Peter and Phillip;
(g^ Lora Isabella Abernathy (I860-), who married John
Adolphus Rhea, and had children: John Rhea, Mary Rhea
and William Rhea (1882-1904) who married Daisy Hasson.
(see Rhea famiy) ; {h) Masterson Goleman McGormick
Abernathy II (1862-), who married Winnie Pool and had
children: Mary, Joseph, Martha, Gertrude, /Marvin, Wen-
dell, Irene and Lora; (i) Zulette Abernathy, died young;
(j) Martha Elizabeth Abernathy, died young; (k) Isaac
Luckey Abernathy (1868-), who married Minnie Stuck, and
had children: Gladys and Gertrude) ; (5) Martha Donaldson
(married Arthur Williams and had one child: Alice) ; (6)
Elizabeth Donaldson (married John Gabbert and had one
child: Elizabeth); (7) John Donaldson (married Frances
Harper, and had children: Abigail, Andrew, John and
Mary) .
II WILLIAM DONALDSON
II William Donaldson was born April 25, 1738, in Vir-
ginia, and died March 19, 1819. He was the son of John
Donaldson and Oatherine (Davies) Donaldson, who was
110
Digitized by VjOOQIC
DONALDSON
married near Philadelphia, Pennsylvaniia, to Mary Sweeney
' (1748-1839. They moved, al>ou*t 1766, to the Holston Coun-
try, then a part of Ncrth Garolina, now Tennessee, and
located on a faion where their children were born.
^'William Donaldson enlisted as a private in Colonel
Wood's Company of Eighth Virginia Regiment of Foot,
Revolutionary War. He was enlisted, March 6, 1777, to
serve three years and his name last appears on the roll of
the company, dated Morristown, Tennessee, December 9,
1779. (War Dept. and Pension olTice Recoird).
Listed in Virginia Militia in the Revolution, by J. T. Mc-
Allister, as ^'Ensign, June 22, 1778, William Donaldson".
William Donaldson and Mary (Sweeney) Donaldteon had
children:
1 Elizabeth Donald-son,
II Aud'rew Donaldson,
III Mary Donaldson,
IV Ann Donaldson,
V John Donaldson,
VI RelM?oca Donaldson,
VII Jane Donaldson
/ Elizabeth Donaldson
' I Elizabeth Donaldson (1767-1847) married (about
1784) Joseph Rodgers (-1833). She moved to the Holston
Coini[r>\ where ihey nKirried. They went at once to Knox
County, Tennessee, at that time a part of North Carolina,
and located on Big Sinking Creek, three miles from Camp-
beirs Station. Their home was surrounded by a vast
forest. Joseph Rodgers was a soldier in the Revolutionary
War, was in the Battle of Cowpens and served as Wagon-
master in the War of 1812. He was stationed at Mobile
during the Battle of New .Orleans. His wife is said to have
been a beautiful woman of commanding personality. They
had children:
.1 James Rodgers, married (1815) Elizabeth Bond,
moved to Texas. (1850).
2 William Rodgers.
3 Joseph Rodgers, married Adaline Scott of Virginia.
4. Thomas Rodgers, married Parfhena Clark, moved to
Texas (1850)-.
5 Mary Rodgers,
6 Elizabeth Rodgers, married Jacob Lowe,
7 Sarah Rodgers, married James Erwin,
8 Relfecca Rodgers, married Martin Lowe,
HI
Digitized by VjOOQIC
NOTABLE SOUTHERN FAMILIES
9 Margaret Rodgers, married Stephen Lowe.
2 William Rodgers was born Fe»bruary 13, 1794, and die4
January 29, 1866, at Concord, Tennessee. / He married,
March 30, 1816, Mahala Lowe (1798-1873) (a daughter of
Abram Lowe and Mary (Martin) Lowe, and a sister o/
Martin and Stephen ihwe who married Rebecca 'and Mar-
garet Rodgers). She was born at Lov )*s Ferry (Campbell's
Station) on the Tennessee River, in Knox County, in the
fiuicestral home of the Lowes. This;home was located on a
highway and beccmie noted for its generous hospitality as
Uiey weleoaned tivavelers of all degrees. One, by tho name
of Farragut, coming down the River, with his family,
stopped at this farmstead to avord traveling by flatboat, in
winter, and remained several months. Abram Lowe gav#
them the use of a log cabin and his wife assisted in pro-
viding a layette for the little baby who was born to the trav-
elers while there. This baby became x.dtaiiral Farragut . In
1900 The Daughters of the Revolution erected a monument
to Admiral Farragut on the spot tliat was formally the
si^ht of ihe old Lowe home. Among the many distin-
guished guests of this home, in those early days, was the
eminent English philanthropist and minisiter, William
Forester, who sickened and died while there cared for by
his host, General Samuel D. W. Lowe, a son of Abram Lowe.
William Rodgers was a man of large means, benevolent,
and a leader in his community. Ho «vas progressive ami
did much to introduce fine 'stock j...to his section. He
brought the firs'l iron plow into east Tennessee (about
1825). He made several trips to Kentucky, by barges, down
the rivers carrying stock and grain for sale, and returning
overland — a perilous journey at that time. He served ia
Major Child's Brigade, under General Jackson, in the War
of 1812. Enlisted as a private, promoted to lieutenant, was
in Mobile during the Battle of New Orleans.
William Rodgers and Mahala (Lowe) Rodgers had
children :
(1) James Martin Rodgers,
(2) Joseph Nelson Rodgers,
(3) Abram Wiley Rodgers,
(4) George Donriel Rodgers,
(5) Semira Ann Amanda Rodgen
(6) Samuel Andrew Rodgers,
(7) William Donaldson Rodgert
(1) James Martin Rodgers (1818-1901) married twice:
first, Martha Gourley, no issue, second (18405^ Malvinit
112
Digitized by VjOOQIC
DONALDSON
Galbraith (1828-1904). He with his brothers Joseph, Wiley
and George, traveled froaii SK. Louis, in 1853, aci*oss the
plains, by wagon. He moved to Wilson ville, California,
(1865), with his family and rem<ained there until his deaths
He had children: (a) Arthur Rodgers (1848-1903), (married
(1895) Mrs. Elizabeth Montgomery, ind had one child:
Millie Lucile Rodgers (1896-), who uiarried (1921) Frank
J. Jones. Arthur Rodgers was an enunent lawyer of Saj^
FYancisco and was a member of the board of Regents of the
University of -Gahfornia) ; (b) Lee Omar Rodgers, M. D^
(1851-), (married (1873) Emma Jones, and had one child:
Walter Rodgers (1876-), who married Julia Burt, and had
one child, Lee Walter Rodgers (1918-;. Lee Omar Rodgerf
was a practicing physician in San Francisco until he retiredL
in 1904 to Palo Alto); (c) Mary Rodgers (1853-), (married
(1881) Horace Gowlos. Tiii'l'dren: Florence Bell Cowles
(1883-), who married (1905) George Webb, and had chil-
dren: Arthur (1906-), Mildred (1908-), Earl (1911-),
Gordon (1913-), and Evelyn (lOio-); Herbert Jameg
Cowles (1885-), who married (1906; Edna Mann, and had
children: George (1908-), Eloise (1909-), and Hazel
(1911-); Lillie May Cowles (1888-); lithel Malvina Cowleg
(1891-), who married (1918) Frederick Hudson, and had
one child, Frederick Rodgers Hudson (1919-); Gertrude
Emily (Bowles (1894-), who married (1921) Harlow Bren-
ner Ford); (d) Luther Rodgers (lbi>6-); (e) Charles H.
Rodgers (1858-1912), (married (1890) Josephine Jacobsen^
Children: Carrol James (1891-), Harold Marion (1895-)^
Florc^iic^ Malvina (1897-), and Margaret Amelia (1899-));
(f) Maggie Rodgers (1800-), (nianied Lee Shideler, no
issue); (g) Julia Rodgers, (died young); (h) Elizabeth
Rodgers (1866-), (married (1892) Fnd Nohrden. Children;
Elmer (1894-), Chester (1898-), and Olive Elizabeth
(1902-)); (i) Alice Rodgprs (1871-K (married (1895) Joha
S. Brown. Children: Kennofh (1905-), and Dorris (1908-)).
(2) Joseph Nelson Rodgers (1819-i887), married Mary
Ann Rankin (1825-1910), amJ had childlren: (a) Laura Aim
Rodgers (1846-1917), (married Sanmel Pride Brown.
Children: Lena D. Brown (1862-), who married William A.
Doughty, and had one child : Fn^t who married Adra Smiih
and had children: Fi'ed Unughfy II and Billie;
Victor Brown; Mary E. Brown (18t)5-), who married
(1009) Robert Longbottuni; Spencer C. Brown (1867-), who
married Sallie Bell Preston; Luther L. Brown (1870-), who
married Nellie Palmer; Nell Brown (1872-), who married
J. G. Young; Minnie Lee Brown (i875-), who married
113
Digitized by VjOOQIC
NOTABLE SOUTHERN FAMILIES
William G. West; Frances May Brown (1877-), who
married George E. Knox; Stella Fay Brown (1880-), who
married Charles Ray Galloway; Dora Reid Brown (1884-),
who married Hal Doggeflt; Joe Rodgers Brown (1887-);
(b) Ellen Jane Rodgers (1850-), (married twice: First
(1868) J. M. Smith; Second, (1884) Benjamin Longbottom.
Children by first husband: Spencer C. Smith (1869- ». who
married , and had children: Alfratta, Frank,
Ellen Clifford, Bessie, Annie and J. D.; Ida May Smith
(1875-), who married David Nelson Fox; Annie Laura
Smith (1877-). Children by her second husband: Lassie
Ellen Longboltom (1885-), who married William David
Peters; Bessie Lee Longbottom (1890-), who married Joseph
Melvin Porter, and had one child, Mildred Virginia (1916-) ;
Edgar B. Longbottom (1887-1920)); (c) TiMmessee Rodgers
(1852-), (married (1868) Henry G. Anderson. Children:
Joseph W. Anderson (1871-), who married Frances Gham-
ness, and had (Children: Carl (1907-), Mildred (1909-), and
Joseph Willis (1914-) ; Cora Pearl Anderson (1875-), who
married John F. iHinton, and had children: Thelma
.(1902-), Iva (1904-), Helen (1911-), Harry (1918-), and
John F. Hinton II (1909-); Daisy Anderson (1878-), who
imarried Charles David Hughes, and had children: Ralph
(1900-) and Mary Louise (1910-} ; Jennie Grace Anderson
(1879-), who married Charles Bell; Ophelia Rankin Ander-
son, who married Robert Tsaylor Gammon, and had chil-
dren: Mary Eleanor (1909-), Robert Taylor Gammon II
.(1911-), and Virginia (1920) ; Omar Rodgers Anderson);
i(d) Spencer Clay Rodigers, M. D. (1848-), (married (1874)
•Cordelia Virginia Haun (1853-1920). He moved from Ten-
nessee (1890) to Wiatsonville, California, where ho attaiuod
eminence as a physician and progressive citizen. They had
children: Frank Rodgers (1876-), who married (1905)
Mabel Grimer, and had children: Kathryn (1907-) and
Arthur (1909^; Clara Rodgers (1879-), who married
<1903) Frank Silliman, and had children: George (1905-),
twins — Floyd and Frances (1908-), and Mildred (1910-) ;
Floyd Rodgers (1884-), who married Alma Yale; Grace
Rodgers (1887-). who is teaching in a school for soldiers
in Maniilla, P. I. (1921) ; Iva Rodgers (1901-) ; (e) Alice Belle
Rodgers (1859-), (married John W. Alexander. Children:
Lena, Lucy, Cora Jane, Austin, Floyd Rodg-
ers, Ann and Irene); (f) Samuel Arthur
Rodgers (1862-), (married Elizabeth Wells, no
issue); (g) Elizabeth Malvina Rodgers (1866-1898),
(married (1884) Albert Addison Woods. Children: Roy
114
Digitized by VjOOQIC
DOiNALDSON
Woods (1886-); Mabel Woods (1888-), who married Fred
Hobbs, and had children: James, Raymond and Clara;
Alma Woods ( 1895- ), who married Robert Singleton, and
had children: Mabel, Helen and Nelly; Lida Elizabeth
Woods (1893-), who married Calvin Davenport, and had
children: Harry and Wilma* (h) Rufus Donald Rodgers
(1870-), (married (1894) Lida Potts, and had one child;
Elizabeth Rodgers (1896-), who married Lewis Stanley
Adcock, and had children: Josephine (1917-), and Jack
(1918-)).
(3) Abram Wiley Rodgers (1823-1883), married twice:
First, Maiy Ellen Wallace (1830-1867); Second, Mrs. Isa-
bella Scruggs, nee Saffel, a niece of his first wife. Abram
Wiley Rod'gers while in t'he shipping business died at
Mazatlan while on a trip to Mexico. His widow was a
beautiful cultured woman of fine sense and character,
capable of assuming the responsibilities of rearing her
large familj' which she did with success. Children by first
wife: (a) Charles Craig Rodgers, died young; (b) Lucy
Bell Rodgers (1858-1908), (married (1881) William Abra-
ham Stingley. Children: Raymond, Sarah (1888-) and
Leroy (1891-), who married Julia and had one child,
Maud Leone (1913- ); (c) William Rodgers; (d) Mary
Amanda Rodgers (1862-), (married Otto Damcke. Chil-
dren: Emily and Rodgers); (e) Sarah Tennessee Rodgers
(1864-), (married Daniel S. Stewart. Children: Evelyn,
Marie, Daniel and Mildred) ; Children by second wife: (f)
George Rodgers; (g) Frank Rodgers (-1905), (died in
China. He married and had one child) ; (h) Viola Rodgers
(who distinguished herself in newspaper work) ; (i) Rosa
Rodgers, (died young); (j) Harry Rodgers (-1914),
(married and had one or more children).
(4) George Donnel Rodgers (1825-1894) married Julia
Lenoir Browder (1834-1907). They were born and married
in Tennessee, and moved to Walsonville, California. They
had children: (a) Henry Browder Rodgers (1873-),
(married (1908) Anna Bieth) ; (b) George Floyd Rodgers
(1875-), (imarnied (1904) Helen Smith; (c) Blanche Le-
noir Rodgers (1879-), married (1899) Edward Wilkinson.
Had one child: Catherine (1900-) ; (d) Minnie Arthur
Rodgers (1880-).
(5) Samira Anai Amanda Rodgers (1827-1904) married
(1846) Samuel Love Russell (1822-1903), and had children:
(a) Alice Donnel Russell (1847-), (A woman of rare
character who devoted ihe chief efl'orts of her life to the ad-
vancement of education); (b) William P. Russell (1849-
115
Digitized by VjOOQIC
saniwvd NHaHxnos aiavxoN
1920), (married (1874) Fannie R. Wheeler (1849-),
Children : Bessie Rodgers Russell (1876-) ; Mary A. Russell
(1877.) ; Lucy Norvell Russell (1879-), who mairied (1904)
William Elbert Andrews, and had children: Frances
Aktelene (1905-), Dorothy AJice (1906-), Marjory Norvell
(1908-)^ William Elbert Andrews II (1909-), Thomas Rus-
sell (died young), and Robert Andreivs (1918-); Bertie
Virginia Russell (1881-); Annie Wheeler Russell (1883-),
who married (1913) Will Tucker Banks, and had one child,
Anne Russell (1914-) ; Willie Frances Russell (1886-), who
married' (1913) Frank Elliott Barnard, and had one child :
Frank Elliott Barnard II (1914-)); (c) Robert Wiley Rus-
sell (1852-), (married (1885) Rena Gertrude Scott ((1859-),
Ohildl^n: Roberta Gerlnude Russell (1885-), who married
(1918) Walter Franklin Heycock; Wiley Scott Russell
(1888-)); (d) Ann Eliza Russell (1857-), (married
(1878-). Finis Ewing Galbmitlli (1854-). Children: Zella
Mae Galbraith (1880-), who married (1904) Hei4)ert Collie
Talloy (1879-), and had chkiren: Gawl Dean (1905-),
Herbert Russell (1907-), and Margaret Moren (1910-),
Adah Ewing Galbraith (1883-), S. L. Russell Galbraith
(1886-), who married (1913) Sadie Garber (1889-), and had
children: James Garber (1914-) Winifred (1916-)and Mary
(1919-)); (e) Lizzie Love Russell (1859-), (never married);
(t) Samuel Andrew Russell (1861-), (married twice:
First, (1889) Hatlie Etobbins (1868-1903); Second, (1905)
Mary Leola Adair (1883-). Children by first wife: Samuel
Andrew Russell II (1890-), who married (1913) Nettie
O'Brien (1891-), and had children: Mary Louise (1914-)
and Samuel (1916-) ; Eleanor Ruth Russell (1891- j, who
marned (1916) James Courtney, of Atlanta, Georgia, and
had one child, Harriet Agnes (1917-); James Donnell Rus-
sell (1893-) ; Julia Bell Russell (1896-), who married (1918)
Herndon Clements Aderhold, and had one child, Herndon
Clements Aderhold II (1920-) ; twins — Annie Rodgers and
Margaret Russell (died young); Frank E. Russell (1899-);
Hattie D. Russell (1902-). Children by second wife: George
Spencpr Russell (1906-); Lillian Adair Russell (1909-);
Robin Adair Russell (1919-)); (g) Mary Rodgers Russell
(1864-K(mamtxii(1890) Brafley Riussell McBafh (1855-) , Ghih
dren: Map>^ Luoile McBalh (1891-), who married (1913-)
William Henry Eagle (1887-), and had one child; Hieizel
McBath (1895-) ; Bpafley Russell McBraHih II (1901-) ; Helen
Virginia McBath (1904-); (h) Jane Amanda Russell (1867-),
(never married); (i) George Donnel Russell (1871-),
(married (1894) Kate Watt (1873-). Children: Allie D,
H6
Digitized by VjOOQIC
DONALDSON
Russell (1895-k who married ^(1914) RoUin C. Nichols
(1894-), and had one chiWi, Catheryne Teresa (1915-);
James M. Russell (1898-) ; Kathleen Russell (1902-) ; George
Donnell Russdl II (1904-) ; Robert Russell (1906-) ; Ed-
ward Earle Russell (1915).
6 Samuel Andrew Rodgers (1830-1902) married
(1863) Sarah Eliza'betti Rhea (1843-1893). (see Rhea
fatnily). Samuel Andrew Rodgers was bom in Knox
County. Tennessee. When twenty one years old he went
to California in the wake of the -Forty-niners". He grad-
uated from Oumherlaind- University in 1856. and from its
Law department in 1858. Practised Law in Knoxville until
the courts were closed by the war. In 1878 he was elected,
from Loudon, Tennessee, judge of the Third Judicial
Circuit Court and served for three successive terms, of
eight years each. This is the only 'office he ever held but
he was at one time appointed! Attorney General and Re-
porter for the State, wnich he declined to accept. He was
one of the several men of eastern Tennesse who labored
to prevent Tennessee from seceding from the union. When
William G. Brownlow was released from Confederate
prison he selected Samuel A. Rodgers as his personal
friend to accompany him through the lines from Knoxville
to Nashville. Judge Oliver P. Temple, in his book, Notable
Men of Tennessee, says **Too much credit cannot be given
to him for his faithfulness to Mr. Brownlow during all his
trials. He exposed his own life to the greatest danger and
endured great hardships in serving his friend. Nature has
given to the world few as fine men as Judge Samuel A.
Rodgers' ". Judge Rodgers had much to do in the establish-
ment of Loudon County. He did much for the promotion of
education and the Christian Religion; was an elder in the
Presbyterian Church .... Had a liberal education, was
a close observer and student of men and events, was a
farmer and lawyer. Was full of activity and benevolence
and the world was better for his having lived in it". (Wil-
liam L. Welcker, in Knoxville Journal and Tribune) .
Samuel Andrew Rodgers and Sarah Elizabeth (Rhea)
Rodgers had children: (a) Alice Rodgers (died young);
(b) California Elizabeth Rodgers (1869-), (married (1888)
Colonel Joseph Marion Greer. Had one child: Rhea
Rodgers Greer (1890-), who married (1913) Guy Lycan
Hammitt (1887-) of Denver, Colorado); (c) Adaline
Mahala Rodgers (1871-1898), (married Captain John
Johnston Blair) ; (d) Samuel Rhea Rodgers (1873-), (Was
an attorney at law. Neve*r married) ; (e) Mary Belle Rodgers
117
Digitized by VjOOQIC
NOTABLE SOUTHERN FAMILIES
(1875-), (married Jasper Porter Stephenson (1871-). No
issue); (f) Annie Eliza Rodgers (18/7-), (married (1904)
Ulrich Ita III (1874-1918). Had one child, Ulrich Ita IV
(died young); (g) Arthur Rodgers (1879-) (married (1909)
Dean Stuart Penland (1888-). daughter of Judjge James R.
Penland and Gertrude (Stuart) Penland. Children: Arthur
Rodgers II (1912-), James Penland (1914-), Samiuel Andrew
Rodgers 11 (1916-) and Jasper Rhea (1919-). Arthur Rodg-
ei*s lives on the Dodson-Rhea homestead, in Loudon
County, Tennessee, which has been in possession of the
family since 1825) ; (h) Minnie Rodgers (died young) ; (i)
John Rhea Rodgers (1885-). (married (1908) Oeorge Steele
Dewey (1881-), (son of .Charles Dewey and Mary Alice (
(Steele) Dewey, of Goldsboro, North Carolina. George Steele
Dewey is a prominent manufacturer of North Carolina).
They had children: Elizabeth Rhea (1909-), George Steele
Dewey II (1910-), Mary Alice (1913-), Samuel Rodgers
(1915-), and Charles Dewey II (1919-),
(7) William Donaldson Rodgers, M. D. (1837-1900)
married (1865) Mary Amanda Knox. He was Hospital
Steward in the Confederate Army, from 1860 to 1864.
Moved to California, in 1875, where he became an eminent
physician. He had children: (a) William L. Rodgers,
(married (1894) Roberta . Children : Donald Rives
(1895-) an* Helen Singleton (1897-) ; (b) Julia Rodgers,
(died young) ; (c) Charles Rodgers (died young) ; (d)
Samuel A. Rodgers, (not married); (e) Eva Rodfeers (not
married).
5 Mary Rodgers, daughter of Joseph Rodgers and Eliza-
beth (Donaldson) Rodgers, was born in 1796, and married, in
1813 to William Sansbury Gound, and had children: (1)
Elizabeth Ritter Gound (1814-), who married M. A. Mc-
Cullooigh; (2) James Alexander Gound; (3) Verlinda Re-
becca Gound (1819-1894), who married Ezekiel P. Stone,
and had one cMld, Lucretia Jane; (4) Joseph Rodgers
Gound; (5) Sarah Jane Gound; (6) Margaret Mahala Gound
(1826-1869), w-ho married (1856) Oliver P. Stone, and had
children: (a) Hugh Marion Stone; (b) Magnolia Eveline
Stone; (c) Charles Lee Stone, (married Mary L. Jett. Chil-
dren: Manel Clare, Mary Gladys and Chfitrles Edwin); (d)
Lucretia C. Stone; (7) Phylander Davis Gound; (8) Robert
Tate Gound; (9) Mary Ann Donaldson Gound, who married
Alexander McClelland.and had one child : Callie McClelland,
who married Upton; (10) William Edward Gound.
118
Digitized by
Google
DONALDSON
// Andrew Donaldson
II Andrew Doiiekoii (1708-1823) married Isabella
Carmichael, and had children: (1) Mary Donaldson
(1797-), who married William Reese; (2) Anna Donaldson
(1799-), who married Samuel Hawkins; (3) and (4) Su-
sanna and Elizabeth Donaldson (twins, 1801-). Susanna
anarried Oolonel And'rew G. Eaton artd Elizabeth onarried
Thomas Snoddy; (5) Margaret Donaldson (1802-), who
married Solomon Shipley; (6) Jane Donaldi&on (1809-),
never married; (8) William Don'adls^on (1813-), who
married Whiteside.
/// Mary Donaldson
III Mary Donaldson married (1797), in Jefferson County,
Tennessee, Thomas Rodigers, who was born (1770) in
Washington County, Tennessee. Name of one child
knmvn: Thomas Les'lie Rodgers, born (1807) in Knox
County, Tennessee, who married Elizabeth Pickle, (daugh-
ter of Henry Pickle), and had child^ren: (1) Elizabeth
Rodgers; (2) Rebecca Rodgens; (3) Catherine Rodgers; (4)
William Rodgers; (5) Jonathan Rodgers; (6) Henry Rodg-
ers (ki'llf'J iii Hatlle of Resasa; (7) Thoaims Rodgers F;
(8") Jiuni's Rr»d^ers; (9) George Rodgers; (10) Jacob B.
Riidgers (1838-1920), w^ho marrii>d (1859) in Roane Gownty,
Tennessee, Nancy Ann Magill (1839-1920) daughter of
William Magill).' Soon after i the War Between the Stales
they moved to southern Missouri. Jacob B. Rodgers was a
member of Company K, First Tennessee Volunteer Regi-
ment of the Federal Army during the War Between Ihe
States. He had children: (a) William Thomas Rodgers,
D. D., (1861-), (A prominent mintstor of the Presbyterian
Church. Married (1895) Eula Hunter (1870-). Children
William Hnnier Rodgers (1890-) ; Man' E. Rodgers (1897)
Ruth M. Rodgers (1899-); Robert H. Rodgers (1901-)
James J. Rodgers (1906-) ; Elizabeth Rodgers (1908-) ; (b)
Henry A. Rodgers; (c) Frances Elizabeth Rodgers.
IV Ann Donaldson
IV Ann Donaldson (1775-1836) married in Tejinessee
Alexander Thompson, (1778-1822). Alexander Thompson
was the son of James Thompson who came to America
about 1774. (Jaanes Thompson married (1776), ^the widow
of his cousin, Alfred Carmichael. James Thomp-
son and his wife lived in Virginia, later
in Tennessee. It is not known in which sfate
119
Digitized by
Google
NOTABLE SOUTHERN FAMILIES
(heir son, Alexander was born. Alexander grew to man-
hood in Grainger, now Hamblin, County, Tennessee and
later moved to Indiana. From that lime the Thompson
family has been prominent in the development of that state.
Alexander Thompson and Ann (Donaldson) Thompson had
children :
1 James Thompson II,
2 Isabella Garmichael Thompson.
3 John S. Thompson,
4 Mary Thompson,
5 Alfred Garmichael Thompson,
6 Janet Thompson,
7 Alexander Thompson II (1817-1825),
8 Celia Donaldson Thompson.
1 James Thompson II (1802-1872) married twice: First,
Susan Collier (1802-1850) ; Second, Phoebe Hicks. Children
by first wife: (1) Rebecca Ann Thompson (1826-1882),
who married Alexander Breeding, and had children: (a)
John Breeding (married Martha Pilford) ; (b) James Breed-
ing (married Jane Cooper) ; (c) Effle L. Breeding (married
Williajn M. Perry) ; ('d) William Breeding (married Kittie
Cutsinger) ; (e) Mary Breeding; (f) Adelaide Breeding
(married James L. Dorsey) ; (g) Frank Breeding; (2) John
Alexander Thompson (1828-1886), who married Mary
Gutsinger, and nad children: (a) Susan Thompson
(married Henry C. Bailey) ; (b) Samuel C. Thompson
(married twice: First: Alice Lewis; Second, Tillie Van-
buskirk) ; (c) James Edward Thompson (married Frances
Wilson)'; (d) Lily Jefferson Thompson (married Oliver M.
Mitchell) ; (e) William T. Thompson (married Olive
Wade) ; (f) Isaac C. Thompson (married Minnie Mc-
Daniel); (3) Isaac Mitchell Thompson (1831-1915). who
married (1858) Harriet Pinney (1832-1898), and had chil-
dren: (a) Laura Estelle Thompson (1859-), (married
(1883) Arthur W. McLaughlin. Children: Harry Alfred
McLaughlin (1885), who married (1914) Martha Dawson;
Bdna McLaughlin (1887-), who married (1910) William A.
Ambrose, and had children: William A. Ambrose II,
Harriet Estelle and Richard Arthur) ; (b) Jesse Benton
Thompson (1861-), (married' (1881) William Overstreet
(1858-). Had one child, Anette); (c) Alfred Carmichael
Thompson IV (1864-1903), (married (1885) Elizabeth
Slater. Children: Haskell Alfred and Margaret) ; (d) Edna
Thompson (1867-), (married (1889) Otis Bice (1866-1907).
Had one child: Isaac Thompson Bice (1890-), who married
Ruth Edelle Pritchard (1895). and had one child, Rosp-
120
Digitized by
Google
DONALDSON
iriary) ; (4) Alfred Gannichael Thompson II (1831-1858) ;
(5) William Hamilton (1833-1912), who married Ann J.
ForRarty, and had childrcn: (a) Margaret Thompson
(1868-); (b) Florence Thompson (1870-), (married S. R.
Mutz) ; (c) Josephine Thompson (1872-), (married Charies
Pruitt); (d) Charies W. Thompson (1875-), (married
Glaudie Wiley); (e) Genevieve Thompson; (6) Reddinff B.
Thompson (1838-1849) ; (7) James Irwin Thompson (1841-
1876), who married Jane Gutsinger (1842-), and had chil-
dren: (a) Elizabeth Thompson (1865-), (married Thomas
J. Moffet. Children: Jane Moffett who married^ Oliver Kes-
sing; Ralph Charles Moffett; Mary Louise Moffett who
married George Middleton) ; (b) Minnie Thompson (1867-),
(married twice: First, John Maley; Second, Carl F. Payne,
M. D., no issue) ; (c) James Samuel Thompson (1868-1890).
(married Lucy Mutz. Had one child, Cornelia who married
W. D. Reddish, M. D.; (d) Lewis Jefferson Thompson
(1870-1902), (married Ida M. Sherer. Had one child, Mar-
garet (1898); (e) John Alexander Thompon; (f) Stella
Thompson; (g) Mary Irwin Thompson (1876-), (married
(1902) Samuel Moore (1875-). Had one child, John Thomp-
son Moore (1903)). By second wife, Phoebe Hicks: (8)
Mary Emily Thompson (1852-), who married' D. R. Malone,
M. D., (9) Charles Fremont Thompson; (10) Lydia H.
Thompson, who married Daniel Becker.
2 Isabella Carmichael Thompson (1804-1834) married
Nathan Wheeler, and had one child, Martha, who married
Lee Bradley.
3 John S. Thompson (1806-1845) married Sarah Gar-
vin, and had children : Maria, Harrison, Mary and Alfred
Carmichael Thompson III.
4 Mary Thompson (1809-1873) married William
Hensley, and had one child, Mary, who married
Bickford.
5 Alfred Carmichael Thompson married Maria Garvin,
and had children: (1) Edward G. Thompson, who married
Mary Pruett, and had children: Maurice, Belle and Bona;
(2) Hannah Eliza Thompson, who married Gideon Mc-
Ewin, and had children: Imogene, Alfred G., Maria an<J
Lilly; (3) John Alexander Thompson.
6 Janet Thompson (1814-1876) married TimoUiy Thul-
keld, and had children: Angle, Mary, William, Otto and
Travis.
8 Cecelia Donaldson Thompson (1822-1867) married
Darwin M. Sapp, and had one child, Edward.
121
Digitized by
Google
NOTABLE SOUTHERN FAMILIES
V John Donaldson
V John Donaldson (1778-1859) mamed (1811) Celia
Jordan (1790-1865), and had children:
1 Eliza Porter Donaldson,
2 Maria Donaldson,
3 Celia I>onaldson,
4 Catherine Donaldson,
5 Mary Jane Donaldson,
6 William Jordan Donaldson.
1 Eliza Porter Donaldson, (1812-1890) married* (1829)
Thomas Barton Jarnagin, and had children: (1) Maria
Jarnagin (1830-1860), who married Thomas Eckel, and had
children: Mollie and Jennie; (2) Martha Ann Jarnagin,
died young; (3) Albert Miller Jarnagin; (4) Lavinia Celia
Jarnagin (1839-), who married John Leroy Foust, and had
children: (a) Eva Lea Foust, (married Augusta C. Bowers.
Children: Lawrence Leroy Bowers; Albert Boise Bowers
who married Mary Taylor, and had one child. Josephine:
Hugh Augustus Bowers who married Winifred Gross, and
had one child, Mary Lavinia) ; (b) Anna Laura Foust; (c)
Mary Foust; (d) Wiley Barton Foust; (e) Hugh Jarnagin
Fousl; (f) Robert Leroy Foust (1879-), (married Edna Farr) ;
(5) Mary Eliza Jarnagin; (6) John Chesley Jarnagin; (7)
Hugh Earnest Jarnagin (1847-1907), who married Amelia
Fisher, and had children: (a) Nellie Jarnagin; (b) Herbert
Jarnagin, married Lucy Lynch. Children: Mary Elizabeth,
and Herbert) ; (8) Laura Amanda Jarnagin.
2 Maria Donaldson (1814-1911) married William Mur-
phy Barton (son of Isaac Barton and Jane( ) Barton),
and had children: (1) Catherine Barton; (2) Jesse Barton;
(3) David Barton (1838-1912), who married Rebecca Long;
(4) Celia Jane Barton; (5) John Isaac Barton; (6) Eliza
Barton; (7) Robert Wesley Barton (1850-), who married
Phoebe Jane Post, and had children: (a) Jesse Mae Bar-
ton, (married Edgar Lee Keener); (b) William David Bar-
ton, (married Bessie Glenn Matthews. Had one child.
Dorothy) ; (8) William Joshua Barton (1856-), who married
twice : First, Alice Lyle ; Second, Laura King. Children by
first wife: (a) Lena Barton, (ixiarried John G. Kane) ; (b)
Loretta Kate Barton; (c) John Murphy Barton, (married
Emma Lee Weiler) ; (d) and' (e) Edith and Ethel Barton
(twins); (f) William Joshua Barton II;(g) Mary Alice
fiarton; (h) Robert David Barton; (i) Lyle Donaldson
Barton; (j) James Bai^lon. By second wife: (k) Norman
King Barton; (1) Emma Louise Barton.
122
Digitized by VjOOQIC
DONALDSON '
3 Gelia Donaldson married twice: First, David Wesley
Barton; Second, James Craig. Child by flpst husband: (1)
David Wesley Barton II. Children by second husband: (2)
Lafayette Craig, who married and had children : Mabel and
Roy; (3) Robert Donaldson Craig; (4) Decatur Craig, who
married Alice Johnson, and had children : Rollo, Chapman,
Oney and Pauline; (5) Joseph Craig; (6) Florence Craig;
(7) Mary Craig.
4 Oafherine Donaldson (1818-1888) niiarried James T.
Carmichael. and had children: (1) John Donaldson Car-
michael; (2) James W. Carmichael; (3) George A. Car-
michael; (4) Thomas B. Carmichael (1846-), who married
Ora Rader, and had children: James, William, Bulah,
Stella and Annie; (5) Myra Carmichael '(1848), who
married John Martin Smith, and had children: Glen,
Charles, Catherine, Albert and Roy; (6) Mary Carmichael
(1851-), who married Henry Jarnagin, and had children:
Kate, Frank, Myra, Minnie and May; (7) Charles H. Car-
michael (1857-), who married Merle Kirkpatrick, and had
children: George and Charles; (8) Robert M. Carmichael
(I860-), who married Laura Goodson, and had children:
Robert, George, Jeanette and Mildred.
5 Mary Jane Donaldson (1820-1883) married twice:
First, Garvin Leeper Long; Second, Joseph Eckel. Children
by first husbandi: John Robert Long, and Eliza Long who
married Elijah Benton Hale, M. D.
6 William Jordan Donaldson (1823-1889) married
(1851) Amanda Jane Worley, and had children: (1) John
Worley Donaldson (1852-), who married Louise King, and
had children: (a) Hugh Donaldson; (b) Leander King
Donaldso^n, (married Camille Ponder) ; (c) Ollie Kate Don-
aldson, (married Clinton Dewitt Mailer) ; (d) William John
Donaldson (/married Anne Frances Stubblefield.
Children: Annie and William John Donaldson II); (2)
Joseph Eckel Donaldson (1854-1904), who married Mary
Elizabeth Lane, and had children: (a) Frank Warren
Donaldson; (married Neta Rice. Had one child, Mildred
Virginia) ; (b) William J. Donaldson, (married Emily
Craig. Childlren: Lucile, Mary Elizabeth and Emily); (c)
Mamie Lee Donaldson, (married Francis F. Painter,. M. D.
Children: Francis and Josephine); (d) Robert
Lane Donaldson; (e) Adah Beatrice Donaldson, (married
Frank Montgomery. Children: Mary. George and Be-
atrice); (3) Mary Eliza Donaldson; (4) William Gaines
Donaldson; (5) Katie Jane Donaldson (1861-), wh©
married (1883) James Alexander Eckel (1856-), and had
123
Digitized by VjOOQIC
NOTABLE SOUTHERN FAMILIES
children: (a) Lucy May Eckel (1884- ), (married Henry
G. Brandton); (b) Donaldson Kingdon Eckel (1886-) ; (c)
Anna Kate Eckel (1889-), (married Robert B. Hollomen);
(d) Wayne Alexander Eckel (1892-); (e) Bonnie Swingle
Eckel (1897.) ; (f) James Robert Eckel (1905-) ; (6) Mildred
Donaldson; (7) Charies Donaldson; (8) George Robert
Donaldson (1868-), who married Daisy Trent, and had
children: George, Jessie, Francis and! Richard; (9) Hugh
Donaldson; (10) Anna May Donaldson (1874-), who married
Harry Dosser, and had one child, Amanda Frances.
VI Rebecca Donaldson
VI Rebecca Donaldson, daughter of William Donaldson
ami Mary (Sweeny) Donaldson, 'ni.arried Perry PuUen, a^nd
lived in Kentucky. They had children: Perry Pullen II,
never married, and Mary Pullen who was reared by her
aunt, Jane (Donaldson) Ogle.
17/ Jane Donaldson
VII Jane Donaldson, daughter of William Donaldson
and Mary (Sweeney) Donaldson, married John Ogle, and
lived in Kentucky. They had one child who died in infancy.
WORLD WAR RECORD
The Donaldson family, true to its inheritance, nobly
rotsponded to its Countrj^'s call d'uring the war. The fol-
lowing is a partial list of Ihose who served:
Arthur B. Adams II. Captain iu 317th Field Artillery,
8ist Division.
Omar Rodgers Anderson.
Edward Barbour.
IJiutelev B(uil. S. A. T. C. Lafayetto, Loinisiana.
Julius Trousdale Berry. 2nd Lieutenant in Battery G,
36lh Field Artillery, Gamp McGIellan, Alabama.
Harry S. Berry. Colonel in 115th Field Artillery.
John G. Birch. Gamp Hancock, Georgia.
William Landon Bradfleld. 1st Lieutenant in 3rd
Aviation. Instructor. Genter German prison.
Thomas H. Bradford. 1st Lieutenant in 144th Field
Artillery, 42nd Division.
Campbell Huxley Brown. /Captain, Adjutant to Major,
in 3rd Battalion Marine Corps.
Lucius Polk Brown. Captain in Sanitary Corps of the
Ajrmy.
Dug-I^ss Oogd-elle. Was one of the Lost Battalion in
124
Digitized by
Google
DONALDSON
France that had no food or water for several days.
Rhea Oogdteile. On his eighteenth birthday he volun-
teered for service in the Wireless Department; was pro-
moted, in a few days, to instructor; after going to France
be continued in this position until the end of the war. He
was so verv proficient Marconi took him to South America
as soofi as he was mustered out of the service.
William F. Cooper. Captain in 165th Depot Brigade,
7th Battalion.
Bradley Gurrey. Captain, A. P. 0. 714, A. E. F., France.
John Dismukes. Captain.
John L. Dismukes. High private. Intelligence Section
Headquarters 3rd Battalion, Rainbow Division.
Andrew J. Donelson. Captain in 115th Field Artillery.
Frank Donelson. Captain in Headquarters Development
Battalion, Camp Sevier.
Andrew J. Donelson. U. S. A. Training Detachment,
S. A. T. C.
Martin Donelson, M. D., in charge of Naval Hospital,
Norfolk, Virginia.
John Martin Donelson. Section W. Tennessee Draft
Board.
Hammond Gurry Dyas, served in the Marine Corps in
Belgium €uid France.
John Branch Donelson. Tank Service, A. E. F.
Harry Smith Dunn. 1st Lieutenant Grenade Instructor
Conipany F, 229th Infantry, A. E. F.
Efdward Dunn. S. A. T. C. Vanderbilt University,
Niashville, Tenniessee.
Joseph Ford. Corporal in 340th Aero Squadron, Field
No. 2, Hempstead, Long Island.
William Walton Ford. 1st Lieutenant in 317th Field
Artillery, Slst Division.
Lewis E. Ford. 2nd Lieutenant in Air Service, A. E. F.
Eugene C. Ford. Sergean'tt in Ordnance Department,
A. E. F.
William Frost. Cadet C. M. A. Reserve Officers Training
Camp, Gulf Port, Mississippi.
Walker EdNvard Fros)t. U. S. A. Base Hospital 57, Paris
Prance. He was decorated by the French Minister of War
for "extreme devotion to duty in time of peril".
William Franklin. Supply Sergeani, Officers Training
Camp, Camp Pike.
Samuel Gordk)n. Captain, Camp Hancock, Georgia.
Recommended for Major when Armistice was signed.
125
Digitized by VjOOQIC
NOTABLE SOUTHERN FAMILIES
T. G. Gordon. Sergeant, Supply Company 49th Field
Artillery, Fort Sill.
Rhea Rodlgers Greer Hamill. Colorado Volunteers State
Service No. 3334.
Wade Hadley. Sanitary Detachment 105 Supply Train.
A. E. F.
Charles Hardy. Corporal in 130th Field Artillery.
Andrew J. Hays. 2nd Lieutenant in 113th Machine Gun
Battalion Company, C. A. P. 0. 749, A. E. F.
Dennis Smith Hays. Corporal in 49th Field Artillery,
Battery B, Fort Sill.
Hugh Donelson Hays. Lieutenan't in 2nd M. S. Battalion,
Isl. Division. Served overseas.
John McLemore Hays. Sergeant, Marines, Paris Island.
Joseph Gregory Hays. 115bh Field Artillery.
J. Walker Hays. Field Artilery.
Andrew Jackson. Sergeant in Headquarters 157th
Artillery Brigade, 82nd Division.
Albert Marble Jackson. Corporal in Canadian Expedi-
tionary Forces.
A.G.Kean. First-Class Yeoman, Shore doity. New York.
Richard Gordon Kean. Captain in 43rd Company 2nd
Battalion 165 D. B.
Harry Kean. Bugkr U. S. Albatross.
Charles H. Lake. 2nd) Lieutenant in Field Artillery,
Gconp Zachary Taylor.
Donelson Martin Lake. 1st Lieutenant in 151st Field
Artillery, Rainbow Division.
Henry Lake. Captain in Signal Corps Chief Signal,
Washington, D. C.
John Marshall Lawrence. Training for Aviation Service,
Camp Bowie, Texas.
Frank Litflefield. Sergeant-Major, Gas Defense, Rhode
Island.
William Love. 5Tlh Pioneer Infantry.
Paul McKnight. S. A. T. C.
Fitzhugh Murray. S. A. T. C, Baton Rouge, Louisiana.
William Murray. 30th Division.
George W. Polk. 2nd Lieutenant in Air Service, Boston
School of Technology.
Harry Polk. 33rd Regiment Engineers, Company D,
A. E. F.
Philip Read. Observation Section Aviation, Hempstead,
Long Island.
George Read. Commander in Machine Gun Company,
Regular Army, 52nd Infantry, A. E. F.
126
Digitized by VjOOQIC
DONALDSON
Hunter Rodgers. Y. M. C. A. Secretary.
Viola Rodgers. Went to France at the commencement
of the war and engaged in Hospital work. After America
entered the war she and a friend were in charge of a hos-
pital in Paris.
Frank Edmond Russell. S. A. T. C. University of
Alabama.
James Donald Russell. Instructon in bayonet practice,
was in Engineers Gorps at Gaimp Humphries, near Washing-
ton, D. C, and a member of the squad that won the World's
highest record in building a jwntoon bridge, which they
built across the Potomac.
Wiley Scott Russell.
Albert Perrine Smith. Corporal in H5th Filed Artillery.
McGregor Smith. 2nd Lieutenant in Infantry.
John G. Symmes II. Sergeant in Headquarters Depart-
ment 896th Division, Gamp Wadsworth.
Matt N. Thomson. Gorporal in Battery E 114th Field
Artillery.
Fannie Walton. Red Gross nurse. Went overseas with
the Vanderbilt Unit. Served at the Red Gross Base Hospital
No. 17, A. E. F.
Priestly Wherry. 55th Field Artillery Brigade, A. E. F.
Digitized by
Google
Digitized by
Google
HARDWICK
Williiam Hardwick was about twertiy-seven years old ia
1655, accQPddng to his deposition made in Westmorland
County, Virginia. We may place hi-s birtli aJ>out 1618.
As will be seen betow, he aim 1668 or 69. He is probably
identical with the William H<ardige fcransporled into Mary-
land in 1636, (hat is, when eighteen years old.
In 1642 William Hardige, Nathaniel Pope et al. were
living in St. Mary's Hundred, Maryland. In 1645 William
Hardwick and Thomas Sturman, (his father-in-law), be-
ing Puriians, were involved' in the "disturbances of Rich-
ard Ingle. In 1650 William Hardwick, John Sturman
el al. signed a petition in Maryland. Apparently soon
after this, Hardwick and the Slurmans, and probably 'also
Nathaniel Pope, moved to Virginia.
In Northumberland County, Virginia, in 1653, William
Hardige received patent for one thousand acres. In 1659
William HardwicK, Gent, sold to Richard Sturman, in
Weslimoreland Oounty. In 1664 William Hardwick re-
ceived patent for one hundred acres in Westmoreland
(bounty. Virginia.
William Hardwick, who became Lieutenant-Colonel of
Militia, marrtted first, Elizabeth, daughter of Thomas Stur-
man, probably before 1650. .'She seems to have been the
mother of his children. He married second, Margaret,
daughter of Colonel Nathaniel Pope, who died in Wesl-
(mloreland Oounty, in 1660. Colonel Pope's daugh-
ter, Anne, married John Was^hingtonj ancestor of
George Washington. So William Hardwick was great-
great uncle by marriage of our first President. Hardwick's
second marriage 'took place in 1659 or before.'
William Hardwick, ^'late of Nominy, Wes»Iimoreland
County, Virginia, Gen4., and now of Bristol, England,"
129
Digitized by VjOOQIC
NOTABLE SOUTHERN FAMIUES
Tiiade his will October twenty-foiirth, 1668, which was
probated January eig'hth, 1(569. This will deals with the
t€sta>tar's estate in England and he refers to another of
the same date relating to his property in Virginia, which
will has not yet been discovered. All the heirs mentioned
in the surviving will, seem ito be living in England at that
time, so far as ascertainable from the wi'll. Possiblv there
were other heirs in Virginia named in the lost will. The
surviving will mentions wife Margairet, who received 15<J
pounds on oonditipn of fulfilling certain requests mentioned
in the other will regarding the estate in Virginia; sister
Elizabeth Boyee; Do<rc)lhy Gyle and Mar>' Penyman (no rela-
tionship staled); brother Thomas Hardwick; son William
Hardwick, who is to con'linue liSs schooling in England
until ho is twenty-oue; daughter Elizabeth Wynston. Ho
names brother-in-law Mt. Augustine Hull and Cozen
Thomas Youle in his w^:ll. Ovei*seers of the i>res<Mit will
are 'Kiomas Burg.^s, of Bristol, (^hirurgon, and son-in-law
Robert Wynsfon. WLtn»ess^'s an> FrancoiS Bell, James Bell,
Thojnas Boyce, junior, Fulwood. I The execullors of the
other will undoubtedly lived in Virginia. Of these Cozen
Thomas Youle was the son of Captain Thomas Ewell, or
Youell, who mamed Anne Sturman, sister to Hardwick's
ilrst wife, whence he is called G(3zen (nephew by marriage).
William Hainlwick, the first, certainly had two child"ren,
namely (1) William Hardwick, the second. (Captain and
, .a anember of the House of BurgesSes in 1682), and (2)
Elizabeth the wife of Robert Wynston. William Hardwick
(2), returned to Virginia and niarried Frances, said to be
Ihe daughter of L>r. Thomas Crerriaixl. l^^fori^ she
married Hardwick she is said to have been the wife of
^Colonel Thomas Spake, Colonel \alentiiu» Peyton and Cap-
tain John Appleton, so her union with Hardwick was her
founlh marriagi\ How^ever, another ^\Titer. upon what
authority I do not know, while representing the first three
nuimages of Frances Gerrard as above, gives her Cohmel
John \Vashington as her fourth hu'sband. But it is certain
that Hardwick was one of her husband s for 'the reason that
said Hardwick's daughter had a brother (half-brother)
•n^imed Getrrard Peyton (see bellow).
William Hardige, merchant, of Westmoreland County,
received power of atittorney June 19. 1677, from Thomas
Popi^ of Brisitol, England, made a will Se{>bember3, 1684, pr^)-
bat-ed October 20, 1685, in which he ■lU'enMons plantations
on Pope's Cref^k, Westmoreland County, /Vi-rginia, and
naiuets 'ioving friend-s and dear kinsman, Mr. \Mlliam
130
Digitized by VjOOQIC
HARDWICK
Hardridge, Mr. Lawreiice Washington anrf Mr. John Wasli-
ington, all af Virginia." as guardians of his sone. William
HardHd^ was one of a jur>' which i^n) August 25. 1G77,
fofiwid Jt)seph Hardridge (nndouhledly hisf kinsman) guilty
of rebellion. Apparently (Colonel Washing'ton wae alstx iu-
volved in fhis rebellion. William HaT«dlri(|ge was a Bur-
gee at various times from 1682 to 1693 fnomi We&fcmoi^*-
land Oninty. In October, 1692, he is mentionied as living
near the mmith of Nominv Greek in Westmopeland Oi>unty.
He seems tK) have d'iecf soon after th-ait date, for John
Washdngton's will, 1697-98, refers to a watch given him
by (Captain William Hardfidge's will (which will has not
l>een discovered). John WasMngton leaves thds watch to
Mrs. Elizabeth Hardridg^. The only M(rs. Elizabeth Har-
dridge of whom we know, who might qualify here, is the.
wtife of Will'iajn Hardwick, son of Jattnes, whose relation-
ship to the emignnit William is in dooibt. But it is possible
t'hat the marriage of William Hardwick (son of James)
and Elizabeth (Brown, as we sihall see later) had not taken
place so early as. 1697. If the prefix Mrs. were an error
we might suppose tha't Elizabeth Hartridge, sole heir of
Qiptadn William Hardnidg(\ was the recipient of the watch.
riaj)tain Willinm Hardridge had only one child, Eliza-
lieth, horn 1678, died February 25, 1722. She is men-
tioned as sister (half-sister) of Gerrard Peyton in his
will of 1687-88 (in which the testator ap})oinils his
father-in-law, Mr. William Hardridge, as executor). She
is also mentioned in a will of Richard Sturman, 1691, of
Westmoreland f^ounty Virginia. H(» was j)robably her
great uncle. She married Oolonel Henry Ashton, born
July 30, 1671. (Colonel HiMiry Ashton and wife, Elizabeth
Hardridge Ashton, had four daughters, namely Frances
Elizabeth, Aiine and Grace Ash'ton arvd their descendanls,
if any, are the sole descendiintis of (Captain William Hard-
ridg(\ilihe emigrant, if C3ap^tain William was his only son.
Living contem])oraneously with Oaptaiin William Hard-
vMick in VA'i'stmoreland Oou'nity, Virginia, we find thr«'e
others t)f "the nmne. James, Joseph and George Hardwick.
James and Jos^'jj'h ^\^'ere brothers. George may also have
been a brother, though no indticatiion of such relatiO'nshi|>
has been found. All three m»Ry have btHMi sons of Wil-
liam Hardwick the emigrant. The 'latter will, made in
Bristol Eii gland, me^ntions only one son. WilMam was
w^ith his faither in Eng^lauid at that time. But) 'testator
refers to a second will tondhing propei^ti>^ in Virginia and
this will, now lost, might have s-hown 'relation of these
131
. * .Digitized by VjOOQIC
NOTABLE SOUTHERN FAMILIES
Ihiree Hardwicks. They mighit hlave beea older sons re-
maiiHing in Virginia. However, no record of any of them
earlier than 1670 in Vlirginda has been foundl. As will
be seen below, James Hardwick wa-s undoubtedly a rela-
tive of Oaptain Willliam Hardwick, for James in his will^
1698, refers ito sword and belt given him by Gaptlain Hard-
wick. This would indicate that Captain William Hardwick
having no sou bequeathed these manly trappings to his
neiaipes'i male redatioii. If James was not the son of William^
thie emigrant, he -may h<ave been »lihe eon of the lafcter's
brother, Thomas, mentioned in the will cited above. Beyond
this northing can be said until further evidence is discovered.
George Haridwick mamed Mary Powell, diaughter of
Jchn Powell, in 1678, or before. In 1696, he conveyed to
Jolhn BuMer and wife, Sarah, their son, Robert BuUer,
"for natural affecftion borne toward- <lhem" 100 acres, as
on inheiritaince. Probably Sarah Buller was his daughter^
but she is not mentioned in his will dlated May 26, 1704.
In this will hie represenHs himself as of Oopde Parish,,
planter. He mentions wife Mary; son Robert Hardwick
and the Mter's son, George Hardwick. Ifgrandsjoin George
should die, hi^ estate is to go to the three daughters of
William Stewart (no relation shown to testator). Apparently
(his hope of nrnJe ofrspring depended on -his grandson
Geoirge. Probably this hope failed as no liater Hardwicks
are founid traceable to him. Ge^orge Hardw^ick's inventory
is date«d Mardh 25,. 1713.
Joseph Hardwick, as already seen, w'as involved in the
rebellion of 1676. On September 25, 1675, Ridhai^ Go'lly,
of Bristol, England, granted pow^r of attorney to his
brother, Peter Gotly, now boaind' for Virginia, to deal with
Joseph Hairdwick, late of Westbury in the County of Soni-
ereet, England, Sergeniaker, but now resident in Virginia
or Maryland. This paper was witnessed by Thomas Pope,
William Andrews, and John Spencer. Wesitbury is not
far from Bristol and to this region we should probably
turn to find the English ancestors of these Hardwicks. The
fact thiat Joseph Hardwick is in 1675 referred to as late of
Westbury is a strong indication Hhat he had not yet lived
in Virginia and was not therefore a son of William Hard-
wick, the emigrant. Joseph Hardwick is mentioned by John
Oarrier O'f Gople Parish in his will of 1696, as father-in-
law (probably for step-father). John Carrier's wife was
Elizal>eth. In 1698 Joseph Hardwick, of Gople Parish, sold
to Elizabeth Currier (sic). Joseph Hardwick, of Nominy, in
Parish of Cople, made will June 22, 1698, probated Augiast
132
Digitized by VjOOQIC
HARDWIGK
31, 1698. He inen«lions no wife or children. He mentions
ki'nam'an (brother) James iHiarch^iok; cousins (nephews)
James Harciwick and Thomas Hardwick; childTen of Wil-
liam Rarle to -remain with executor (no relationship
stated); refers to land bought of Richard Sturman; other
persons mentioned: in the will are Sarah :Glark, Williajm
Sanford, senior, Henrietta Buckley, Richard Suttofn, Richard
Middleton, Temperance Blanch flower, Benjamin Blanch-
flower (execu'tor), Colonel William Pierce, and Captain
Williaan Bridges.
We now come to JAMES HARDWICK, brother of
Joseph. He first appears in a deed in Westmoreland County,
of 1670 as James Harditdh. He buys o-f Henry and Sarah
Durant land Which had once belonged to Richard Sturman.
In same year he bought froon Thomas Fositer. He married
Ann ATffnsley or Armsby, apparently only child of John
Armsby (died in Westmoreland County, Virginia, 1659),
and wife, Anne. On November 20, 1672, James Hardwick
and wife, Ann, sold to Nicholas Spencer, land patented by
John Artmsby in 1650, wliose da/ugh ter is wife of Jaimes
Hardwick at t!he time of the transac^tion. All the later
Hardwicks of the next and later generations seeim to be
descended from this James.
JAMES HARDWIGK was bom about 1647 (he was
twentyseven years old in (1674) and died in 1698. His will
is dated February 7, 1698, probaled Mardh 30, 1698. He
mentions wife Ann; sons William, Joseph (Who receives
the sword left him by Captain William Hardwick) ;
dau)ghters Elizabeth and Lydia Hardwick (Lydia being
Uinder fourteen years) ; wife's daughter Anne (from which
we m-ay infer fiml James Harwick was her second hus-
band) ; brother Joseplh Hardwick; Thomas Hardwick and
Jaimes Hardwick (no relationship sitated but undoubtedly
sons of the iostator for they receive portion of the estate
tmd are also named as cousins, that is, nephews, in Joseph
Hardwick's will; land furthermore as we shall see below
Joseph Hardwick in 1708 had brother James; Henry As-
bury, John Wright and Benjamin Blanchflower are more
executors.
We shall now take up the children of James Hardwick,
1698, leaving WILLIAM, probaMy the oldest, to the l^t.
No further record has been found of Elizabeth and Thomas.
Possibly Lydia, daug^hter of James Hardwick, married
Thomas Walker, whose will dWed 1726 in Westmoreland,
names wife Lydia, son Hardige Walker, and others. James
133
Digitized by VjOOQIC
NOTABLE SOUTHERN FAMILIES
H'archvick appears on t«he Westmoreland Order Book fop
1708 wW^h wife Elizabeth and with brother Joseph Hard-
wick. He is imdoaibtedly the son of James, 1698, and
identical wifch James Hardwick. of (k>ple Paris»h, who made
will June 12, 1749, probated 1749. In tlhis will h'e mentions
wife Elizabeth, soais Thoimas and John Hardwick; son-in-
law Elias Davis; daugh-ters Elizabeth Nash, Sarah Sum-
mers, and Gyoway (?) Lane. In 1759 Thoonas Hardwick,
of Cople Parish, and wife Eliaabelh, sold to Gerrard Hulls.
He was son t)f ^Ihe James \^iho died 1749. James Hardige
Lane Avho m«arried Miary Smi'Ili on Jamiary 12, 1758, in
Overwhorten Parish, Stafford Gounty, Virginia, and later
appears in Loudon Oounty, Virginia, may be a descend^ant
of -the above Hardwick-Lane marriage. In a published
work I find mention of a James Lane who about 1834
married* Lvdia Hardag(\ She is prol>ably the Gyoway of the
above will.
Josepli HardAvick, son of Ja-mes, 1698, made will Decem-
ber 24, 1726, probated Marc^h 29, 1727. He mentions wife
Ann; ohildren tinder 16; *io all my cfhildrefi'' (not by
name) ecfiially lands at Oople. Wife and nephew James
Hardwick an* named as executors. So far only two namt^
of Joseph's children have been discovered, viz: Hazel
(Haswell) Hardwi<5k and James HiardKvick. In 1748 Hazle
Hardwick of Stafford Gounty, Virginia, planter, sold to
Gerrard Hutt, of Gople Parish, Westmoreland Gounty, land
lying in Gople Parish, being part of the land Joseph
Hardwick, father of said Hazel, willed to him. No wife
signs. In Overwharton Parisli, Stafford County, about
1749 Haswell Hardwick married Mar>^ NorthcuW. They had
children as follows :
Ann Hardwick, born Janoiary 4, 1752.
William Hardwick, born September 5, 1753.
F]lizabeth Hardwick, born September 8, 1775.
And perhaps others.
In 1753 Haze^l Hardwick, of Frederick Gouniy, Virginia,
jiate^nted 407 acres in Frederick Goimty. In same county
on May 2, 1763, Hazel Hardwick and wife, Mary, sold the
above ttracl of 407 acres to Andrew Beard and John Tate.
The Ghester Gmmty, South Garolina, census for 1790 rtioWs
Ha^el Hardwick at the head of a family. Probably he is
♦hf same as the above as no record of his in Virginia ha«
been found.
James Hardwick, of Oople Piarish, son of Joseph, 1727,
#01 October 25, 1743, sold thirty-five a^creB of Gople, part
134
Digitized by VjOOQIC
HARDWICK
of land whereon Joseph Hardwick, father of said James,
lived. Isabel, wife of James Hardtvick, joins in the deed.
No fuTther record of »Bhe deseenants of Joseph, 1727, has
been found.
We now take up WILLIAM HARDWICK, probably
the oldest son of James Hardwick, 1698. He iiMtrried
Elizabeth BrowTi, sisiter of George Brown, whose will dated
1724 in Westmorelland GouTvty, refers to his sister Eliza-
beth, wife of William Hardwick (probably meant for
widow). WiMiam Hardwick madte e will Ootlober 31, 1718,
proba*ted February 25, 1719. It was witnessed by William
Hardwick, Joseph Hardwick, Aaron Hardwick, and Ann
Robinson. Of these witnesses Joseph Hardwick was the
testator's brother, who died in 1727. But the other two,
William and Aaron Hardwick, ^re not yet placed. Possi-
bly tlhey are older sons of ^he t*estator (not mentioned in
his will. This Aftron Hard^vick is probably the Aaron
Hardwick, of (/ople Parish, who in 17^ bought 100 acres
of Henry Astniry.
WILLIAM HARDWICK, 1718-19, mentions wife ELIZA-
BETH, daughters Frances and Dorcas, sons George and
J^mes, mentions children under 16; wife Elizabeth and son
James are named as executors.
ELIZABETH HARDWICK, widow of the ABOVE WIL-
LIAM, made will August 12, 1734, probated 1734. She
mentions grandchildren Bailey Walker, RaioheJ Walker,
Frances Hardwick, nephew (sic) Hannah Hardwick;
nephew (sic) Ann, Hannah Ashton (no reMtionship
stated) ; and son James Hardwick. The nephew Hannah
Hardwick has not yet been pllaced. Apparently one of the
slaughters of William Hiardwick had married a Walker
before 'this d^ate. The grand cMld Francos Hardwick is
probably the diaughter of James, see below.
George Hardwick, son of the above William and Eliza-
beth, in 1724, with Patrick Spence, Thomas Sturman, and
Thomas James, took up 1678 acres in Westmoreland
County. He died lapparen-tly unmarried. He made "v^ill
Jime 30, 1732, probated soon afterward. He mentions
moliher i Elizabeth Hardwick, brother James and his son
William (under 21). Brother James is appointed executor.
JAMES HARDWICK, son of William, 1718-19, married
HENRIETTA GARLAND, daughter of William Ctorland.
He made will Jmie 8, 1737, probated Septemher 27, 1737.
In the probate he is called James Hardwick, junior,
appai^ntly to distinguisih him from his uncle James Hard-
135
Digitized by
Google
NOTABLE SOUTHERN FAMILIES
wick, who autlived him by ifwelve years, see above. He
mentions wife Haney Ritta (sic) ; sons Aaron, George and
WILLIAM HARD WICK; William Garland, junior, '^brother
of my wife"; daughter Prances, and decees-ed broth'er
George Hardwick. Henrietta Hardwick and William,
land, junior, were executors of will of Jiames Hardwick,
junior, in 1737. The father of Henrietta Hardwick was
probably William Garland, whosie will dated February 21,
1743, in Richmond County, Virginia, mentions son William
Garland, daughtSer Mary cm'd grandfeon George Hardwick.
This George Hardwick Was still a minor in 1750, when as
heir of James Htirdwick, deceased, he chose William Hard-
wick as guardian (probably his older brother). No further
record of George or Frances, children of Jama's Hardw'ick,
1737, has b^n fo<und.
How^ever in the records of Jefferson County, Arkansas,
is found the will of a Garifand Hardwick, who no doubt
was the son of fhe above George. The will, dated Dec<^mber
12, 1850 and probatetd December 29, 1852, names his wife,
Nancy, and grandchildren Garland H. «and iMargaret R.
Dorris, child'ren of deceased daiughter, Robinia T. Durriss,
as sole legatees.
We now take up Aaron Hardwick. Aaron, son of
James Hardwick, 1737, cou«ld not be identical with Aaron
Hardwick, who in 1718 witnessed will of William Hard-
wick, and in 1722 bought! land. The reference given
below may not <all belong to the same Aaron Hardwick. In
Westmoreiland County in about 1756 Aaron Hardv\'ick ^s
mentioned in connection with the building of a road.
About same tione Aairon Hardwick sues Thconas Hard-
wick, w*hich suit was dismissed. Aboul* 1760 John D^^boc
w<as ordered to pay to Aaron Hardwick 638 pounds of
tobacco for his services as witness in case of Deboc vs.
Gerrard Hutt. About 1758 William Hardwack was ordered
to pay Aaron Hardwick 203 pounds of tobacco for sei'\aces
o5 witness in case of Hard^vick vs. Edmund Bulger. In
Prince William Goimty, Virginia, on June 10, 1765, Aaron
Hardwick sued George Boland for a small amount.
We now approach this line from a different angel. In
Fauquier County, Virginia, on December 12, 1787, license
was granted to Corndius McCarty ito marry Sukey Hard-
wick. The oldest son of -fchis large family was named
Aaron Hardridge McCarty, from which fact it seems
probable that his maternal granxifather w>as named Aaron
Hardridge (Hardwick). The probability beco'mes almost
136
Digitized by
Google
HARDWIOK
a certainly wh^n we find thsil 'the above Susan Hardwick
M<»Gapty 'had a brother, William Heu'dwick , Who named
his olciest son Garland Hardwick, which fact naturaJly
connects him with James Hard wick, 1737, who married
Henrietta Garland, see above.
Aside from this brother William, Susan Hardwick Mc-
Cart:j' also' hud brother John Hardwick and sister Eliza-
beth Hardwick, James Kincheloe was granted license to
marry Elizabeth Hardwick in FaAiquier County, Virginia,
Decp^mber 7, 1790. They had Brandt, Hardwick, Eleanor
Kinchel(K\ aind probably others. Thie writer has seen a
deed (not rcorded' apparently) dated December 23, 181(5,
by which Cornelius McOarty and Susannah, his wife, late
Hardridge (sic) of Hardin County, Kentucky, sell to James
Kinoheiloe, of Faoiquieir County, Virginia, 200 acres in
Fauquier County, boug<ht by Margareit Hardridge (mother
of the said Susamnah McGeu^ty), while a widow, of Thomas
Glasscock, which said Margaret Hardridge afterwards
married William Turley. The above Margaret Hardridge
was born Glasscock and not Orear. She was the daughter
of John Glasscock who patented land in present Fauquier
Connty in 1728, ajid made will in Fauquier County, No-
vember 27, 1774, in which will he juentions among others,
daughter Margaret Turley. On October 1, 1771, Thomas
Glasscock (son of the above John and brother of Mar-
garet) and wife Agnes sold to Margaret Hardwick, 244
acres. It is this transaction that the deed of Cornelius
Mc( .arty aind bis wife Susannah, above mentioned, refers to.
In 1774' Thomas Glaisscock ami wife Agnes sold to William
Turley. On March 1, 1815, Sampson Turley, of Fauquier
Oouiuty, sold' to Jaimes Kincfheloe the land which Thomas
Glasscock and wife Agnes in 1771 sold to Margart Hard-
wick. This seems to be the saone laind refenred to in the
unrf^corded dfeed of Qornelius and Susannah Hardwick Mc-
Oariy cited above. We may conclude then that before
Ootober 1, 1771, the first husband (Aaron?) Hardwick, of
Margaret GJasecock had died and in 1774 or before she
had married William Turley, by Whoan as we know from
dthter sources she had* eight children. Prom tihis fact we
may infer. that she was comparativeily young when her
first hiusband died. For the reason cdready given the
writer is convinced that her first husband was Aaron
Hapd\^ick, son of Jaaiies, 1737. It also seems certain that
Aaron Hardwick was twice married, Margaret Glasscock
keing the second wife. The reasons are as follows: Susan
137
Digitized by
Google
NOTABLE SOUTHERN FAMILIES
Hardwick had a brot-her (half-brother) William Hardwick
who was roarrioHi in 1776. Bui between 1771 and 1774
Susan's motiher Margaret HttrdWick married a second
time, 'do Tiw^ley, to WhKJon she bore eight children. She was
not likely therefore to b(» tbe mother of William Hard-
wick, old enough to marry in 1776. Furthermore con-
firmatory evidence is foaind k\ t'he fragments of an old
letter, which the writer has seen wri»t!ten by the abovo
William Hardwick to Oornelius McGairty and Susan Mc-
carty alxnit 1811. In this letter he calls Susan, his
sister, but he also speaks of "your stepfafher (William
Turley)^ whom your mother "married'. The pronoun
YOUR (twice used) indicates t»hat they had different
inotfhem. He mentions removal of her mother to Goose
Oeek, near Rector Town. And tlien "on my retiiu»n (from
when*, not shown in <»xisting fragmente) I found you,
brottier John and sister Elizabeth playing in the negro
house, which was the first time I ever snw yoai" (coii-
firms conjecture that he was an older half-brotTher). "The
year 1783 was the last 't'Lme I ever saw you". He sf)eaks
of our ''niece Elletn Kinche-loe" through whom >he had heard
of Susan McGarty's wliere^bonts. He states that he became
a Methodist in 1788 and in 1702 he went into the miuistrj* in
whidh he had been lalxiring for nineiteen years. From this
statement we pl'aced the date of the letter in 1811. He
states that he has been married thirty-five years next June
26 (apparently then in 1776; further'confirmed by the fact
that their oldest son was born in 1777). '*We have five sons
and fmir <kmg'hters and 'have never had a death in our
family. OM Sara«h, ihe negro that nursed riie, is still with
me". *'We live near Louisville," (that is Jefferson County,
Georgia). He mentions son William P. Hardwick, a sur-
veyor, who is making a itrip to Kentucky and who is to
carry this letter. He also mentions eldest son Garland
Hardwick, near whom they are living. Descend^its of this
William Hardwick ajgree 'Ihat he once lived in Fauquier
County, Virginia, and later settled in Jefferson County,
Georgia. He married Judith Parker, June 26, 1776. They
had five sons and four daughters (see oM letter) as follows :
Garland Hardwick (the ddest), born April 8, 1777. in
Fauquier County, Virginia, and died April 8, 1837.
William Parker Hardwick 1850. Married Sarah
OheaXham.
George W. Hardwick, nmrried first Elizabeth KennoH.
second, Nancy Fontaine, and thiitl, Elisabeth Bush.
138
Digitized by
Google
HARDWICK
John Wesley HardKvick, married Mary Rivers Nally.
Charles Haiilwick. ,
Hukiah Hardwick (married I>awson).
Margaret Hardiwick.
Frances Hardwick.
(Names of only three daug'hters have been han-dted down,
but there wa» a fourth livinig in 1811, w^ho probably died
soon after) .
Garland Hiaixtwick, born April 8, 1777, married, first,
Jane Pawletlt, horn July 12, 1783, in Looiisa Ck>unty, Vir-
ginia. This marriage took place April 16, 1800. She died
August 11, 1807, without issue. He imarried, second,
Dorothy Kennedy, December 22, 1807. She was born
Jemiary 7, 1785, in Orangeburgh District, South Carolina,
and di^ August 23rd, 1849. Tli^v had five sons :
William.
George W.
Benjamin F.
Garland.
Thomas Coke Hardwick.
William Parker (not Park) Hard^wick, son of William
and Judith Parker Hardwick, married about 181.5 Sarah
Baker Cheatham. Their son, Thomas William Hardwick,
married Mary Elizabeth Davis in 1848 and their son, Rob-
ert William Hardwick, was the father of the present Sen-
ator Thomas W. Hardwick.
We now return to WILLIAM HARDWICK, son of
James Hardwick, 1737, of Westmoreland County, Virginia.
About 1752 William Hardwick sued Edmund Bulger.
Aaron Hardwick wajs a witness at this suit. About the
same "tiime William Hardwick's att^ac^ment agiaiinst estate
of John Storj^ is dismissed. I reg'ard hiimi as identical
with Williaim Hardwick who made will on March 23,
1802, in Green County, Georgia, date of Probate April
1, 1803. He mentions heirs of deceased son Ja^mes Hard-
wick; sons William Hardwick, George Hardfuick, and
GARLAND HARDWICK; daughters Martha Jones, Han-
nab Dawkins, Nancy Daniel, Molly Fitzpatrick, and Peggy
Hardlwick, granddaughter (Cynthia Haiidwick Filzpatrick,
(fcbughter of Rene (sic) and Molly Fitzpatrick; sons George
and GARLAND HARDWICK are named as executors.
Witnesses are P. Park, Susan Park, B. Fitzpatrick. Here
«!gain the occurrence of the name Garland seems to con-
nect Williaim with James Hardwick, 1737, of Westmore-
knd Ooilnty, Virginia. He seems older than Williaan of
139
Digitized by
Google
NOTABLE SOUTHERN FAMIUES
Jefferson County, Georgia, and if the name Gtetrland rep-
resents any pel'ationsbip to the ahove H'ardfwick-Garlan<i
marriage, he could be no other 'than William, the son of
James Hardwick, 1737.
Children of th^ above William H<ardfwick, w(ho made will
in Green Ooim'ty, Georgia, 1802-1803, an'd wife Nancy,
(1) Jiaimes. (Nobhing known of descendants).
(2) Martha. (Nothing known of descendants).
(3) H'annah (or Haney).
(4) Nancy. (Nothing known of her descendta.nts).
(5) William.
(6) George.
(7) Garland.
(8) Mollie.
(9) Peggj\ (Nothing known of her descendants) .
Of the foregoing:
(1) JfiLmes married and left heirs, but of them the
writer knows nothing.
(2) Martiha m'arried Jones and' is mentioned in
her father's will.
(3) Haney (Hannah) Hfardwick, (bom 1755, died
1837), married, first, Taylor by \Vhom she had one
child.
1 N^ncy, born 1779.
Her second marriage was to William Dawkins about
1786 or 1787. The children were :
2 Garland I>awkins, born 1788.
3 George Dawkins, born 1790.
4 Daniel Dawkins, born 1793.
5 Reuben Dawkins, born 1795.
() Patsy Dawkins, born 1798.
Of the above:
Garland Dawkinis (1788-1892) married daughter of
Oaplain William Barksidalt*. Hancock Oounty, Georgia.
Ch. 1 Haney /\nn married William Iverson.
2 Martha Ann, married David Lovejoy, Henry
County.
3 Dewitit Clinton (Jasper County, 1829), married
1854 Pannie Jones, Muscogee County, moved to Jackson-
ville, Flori'da.
4 Garland Dawkins died unoiiarried.
5 Virginia.
6 E. LaFYivette Dawkines died in defense of Sa-
vannah.
140
Digitized by
Google
HARDWIGK
7 Myrtle, married Dr. S. B. Hopgood, Boaden,
Georgia.
DeWitt Clinton I>awkins marrie'd Panme Jones.
Ch. 1 Marlbha L. Ida M., married John H.
Howell; 3. Dewi'lft andi Haney Young; 4. SaJlie A. and
Geonge M. (from Prominent Men of Georgia and Florida).
Rjeuben Dawkins (1795-1869), marrded 1. Mlortha Bird
Fitzpatrick (died 1837). Oh. 1. John died unmarried.
2. WaMer Scott andi Isaac Newton (1833-1866).
Reuben Dajw^kins (1795-1865), married- (2) Elizabeth
(Johnson) Hines 1881.
Gh. 1 Sarab Ann Victoria (1839-1885), married John
Williiam Pace.
2 Haney Louisiana. (1841-1915), married 1. Isaac
Pace. (2) Francis A. Boykin.
3 Ann Elizabeth (1844-1869), married 1869 S. A.
Garlic k
4 Mariha Bird Fitzpatrick (1847-1900), married
Edwin A. Houston 1866.
5 William Daniel (1840), married (1) Mary Lou
Pollard. (2) Winifred Garter.
John Williiwn Pace and Sarah Dawkins.
Gh. 1 Stephen, married' Gora Perdue, Garrollton, Geor-
gia. CSi. 1. Alva.
2 Thiomas, married'. Lives in Texas.
3 Downer, married Slairfith Brown, Troy, Alabama.
4 Elizaiellh Lou, married Clin Graven.
5 Emmett, married and lives in Texas.
6 Sarah Francis, anamed Weems Baskins, Gar-
rollton, Georgia.
(3) John, married Annice Petty.
Francis A. Boykin and Haney Dawkins Pace.
1 Frank Marshall, deceaised.
2 Marvin, deceased.
3 Gecil, married Gorinne Moses, GarrolHon, Georgia.
S. A. Garlick and Anne E. Dawkins, deceased.
Edwin A. Houston and Martha Bird Piizpah^ick Daw-
kins.
1 Elizabeth, married Jere R. Traylor, daugiiter Martha
Elizabeth Taylor.
2 Walter, married Sallie Adair; two children: Adair
and Mlarguerite.
3 Martha Louisiana.
4 Edwin, married Nettie Bakter; two children: Charles
and Elimbeth.
141
Digitized by
Google
NOTABLE SOUTHERN FAMILIES
WilMam Daniel Dawkins and Mary Lou Pollard. (1).
1 Oarrie, married Gary Pruelt, Hairtsboro, Alabama.
2 Walter, nmrried and lives in AJabama.
3 Mar&hall, married Miss Evans, Alabama.
Qhildren of Williaim Daniel Dawkins and Winifred
Oarter : |
i Carter.
2 Reoiben.
3 Lollie Belle.
4 Annie Sarah.
(4) Nancy married Willi^wn (?) Dan«iels and was men-
tioned in will of her father. Nothing is known of her
descendants.
(5) William Hardwick bom March 17, 1760 married
Nancy Shipp April 22, 1790, and died March 1, 1828, Han-
cock County, Georgia, (Nancy Shipp Hardwick, born
March 27, 1766, and died Febr.uarj^ 2, 1854). Their children
were:
Betsy, born January 17, 1791, married Allen Robffris
November 17, 1809.
Patsy, born March 19, 1792, married' David Lews
May 2, 1809.
Fmnkey, born January 22, 1794, died December 31, 1801.
Polly, iWn Febniarv 11, 1796, married Adam Jones
October 16 1811.
Ridhara Shipj), bom December 7, 1797, married Martha
Hamilton April 19, 1825.
Sophie Garland', born March 10, 1800, married Stephen
Jones, Januarys 28, 1819, died November 7, 1821.
Eliza Hart,* born December 28, 1801.
Nancy Barron, bom October 17, 1803, married Eli Mans-
field, died April 19, 1852.
James Jefferson, bom October 10, 1805, married Milicy
Pride January 19, 1826.
William Milerson, born M^rch 19, 1808.
Harriet Washington, born April 30, 1810.
(6) George Hardwick, born 17. Died St.
Glair Oo'unify, Alabama, about June, 1824. Will d!ated
April 16, 1823, recorded' July 1, 1824. Married
Marj^ (or Polly) McTyeire. He lived in Jasper Oomitv,
Georgia, 1809, to about 1818. Moved to St. CJlair Gaunty,
Alabaima, about 1818 and died there.
Issiue — Ghildren :
1 James, nuarried; had a son, James Hardwick, men-
tioned in grandfatheo^'s will. Son, Pickens Hardwick, at
142
Digitized by
Google
HARDWIGK
Bmiichville, Ala. Died in SI. Glair County, Aliabajna. Left
largie family.
2 Daugtiter, who nwirried Willis Germany. (Ntuno
next niention'ed in father's will, vVhich mentions son-in-law,
Willis Grerniany.
3 George.
4 WilKani. Was killed in Mississippi.
5 Garland. Died about 1888, aged 84, left number of
children, Talledega CSounty, Georgia. OkJest son, Owen
Hardwiek, Oroswell, Alabama. Son B. G. Hardwick, Hart-
selle, Akbanm. (Son, James O. Hardwick, Eajsonvillo, Ala-
bamia, 1901).
(5 Frizzell McTyerie, born July 14, 1806. Represented
CheroktM* Ooiinty, Aliabama, in Legislature. Died in Cher-
okee. Alal>am>a. Four or five SK>ns killed C. S. A. 'Mrs.
S. H. Raaney's fallier). Died November 19, 1869.
7 Robert. Died in Henry or Rarbour County, Alabama.
L(»ft large family. Colond McTyerie Hardwick,' oldest son.
The f^imily lives at Hnrdwicksburg, Henry Countj', Ala-
ban wi.
8 Sidney. Born . Married (prior to 1823).
WuK H. Rarn'hill.
9 Kissiah. Rorn, July 16, 1800. Died April 16, 18<S3,
at Covingtim. (leorgia. Married, first, October 24, 1^16,
Cornelins Robhison, J«is|)er ticHinty, Georgia. Marriod
second, Jamiary 11, 1838, Williiaim Gwiy Smith. Issue liy
first luarriiage, James Hardwick, Caroline, Saline Frant-t^s
and Sarah Jane. Issue by second* marriage, Roykin Smith.
10 Nancy. (Unnmrried 1823).
(7) Garland Hardwick. Rorn in South Carolina (?)
<abonl 1770. Married Sus-an Venable about 1796 and died
Benton Coamty, Arkansias, 1847. Their children were :
1 John Wesley. Born August 15, 1797. Miarried Jane
Monlgouiery September 22, 1818. Died April 4, 1852.
2 George. Born , 1800. M'arrie-d Ellen An-
drews and died' 1867.
3 Thomas. Married Ann McFarlane.
4 Jiainu^iS'.
5 Mary. Married Joseph Barnett.
6 Cynfliia. M«arried Rev. Peiarson.
7 Joseph Tarply. Rorn August 3, 1811. Miarried Re-
})ekah McFarlane and died 1851 or 1852.
8 Charles F. Rorn , 1814. Married Eliz-
abel*h HoIuk's; second, SIrong or Stroaid.
John Wesley Hardwick. Rorn August 15, 1797. Mai'-
143
Digitized by VjOOQIC
NOTABLE SOUTHERN FAMIUES
ri-ed Jane Montgomery September 22, 1818, and died April
4, 1852. Their children were:
1 Nancy Oaroline Elizabeth. Born October 16, 181^>.
Died' Aoigwsi 27, 1838.
2 William H. Foster June 28, 1838. Died near Docalur,
Texas.
3 Celine Augusta. Born June 14, 1822. M'arried W.
Henry Tibbs February 2, 1843. Died September 28, 1888,
at Dalton, Georgia.
4 Susian Evaline. Born I>ecember 16, 1823. Mcu'ried
J. Milton Holmes November 21, 1849. Died Janwary, 1911,
neiar Decatur, Texas.
5 ttuldia Margaret. Born Augusts 12, 1825. Married
Robert H. Wallace March 27, 1865. Died near Decatur,
Texas.
6 Christopher LaFayetle. Born February 14, 1827.
Married I^bel Tucker April 3, 1851. Died Miarch 3, 1901.
at Cleveland, Tennessee.
7 MiarlTia Eliza. Born October 27, 1829. Married
William E. Key December 15, 1852, and died Miareh 10,
1884, near Rodgers, Arkansias.
-8 Franklin Eleflet. Bom September 27, 1831. Mar-
ried SaJHe B. Barkesdiale Juirwe 23, 1859. Second, Minnie
Kelly July 23, 1878. Died 1912. No Ohildi^n.
9 Hai^h Montgomery. Born September 27, 1833. Mar-
ried Marfha Dean Januiary 5, 1859. Second, Frances P.
Grider September 6, 1866. Died August, 1907, in Oklah-oinia.
11 William Henry Harrison. Born January 29, 1840,
and dded Sepfember 8, 1840.
12 (Cynthia Ann Amelia. Born July 30, 1842. Mamed
Loniuel H. Ohapm'an January 27, 1865. Died' October 21,
1880, uenr Cleveland, Tennessee.
13 Mary Virginia Agnes.. Born Octlober 31, 1844.
Married Andn^w M. Rodgers April 28, 1870. Lives in Cleve-
land, Teiinessee.
Literally 'hundreds of descendants of John W. Hard-
wick are scatitered over the South and West.
(6) Christoplier Lafayette Hardwick was born Feb-
ruary 14, 1827, at the Oheirokee Agency (now Oharlesfon,
Tennessee), while his faHher, John Wesley Hiardwick, was
acting as Assistant Agent to his grandfather. Colonel
Hugh L. Montgomery, who seirved as Indian Agent to the
Oherokees from 1824 to 1838, or until the Indians were
moved West. At an early age the -eibove Qhristcpher
Lafayette Hardwick moved to Cleveland, Tennessee, wnere
144
Digitized by VjOOQIC
HARDWICK
later he married Isabel Tucker (chaiighler of Joseph and
Mary Isabel Tucker) on Api'il 3, 1851. He was very active
in (ihurch affairs, was one of the founders and mwt
Mb^^ral friends of Centenary Female College, Presidenl
Glewland Woolen Mill, President H'ardwick Stove Works
at Cleveianti and Presiden«t of C. L. Herdtwick & Son^
Bankers at I>aIton, Georgia. He Died March 3, 1901.
Ohildiren of Christopher Lafayette H^rdwiok and wife,
Isabel Tmcker Har'dwick, were :
1 Fmnk Tucker. Born March 23, 1852. Married Carrie
Belle McChrtdieon Marcfh 11, 1880. Piresident C. L. Hard-
wick Oompany, Bankers, Dallon. Georgia.
2 Joseph Heniry. Born Pebruary 23, 1854. Married
Oooksey A'della Harris November 16, 1875. President
H»ardwick Stove Oompany, Clevelan-d, Tennessee.
3 John Millard. Bom Au^st 14, 1856. Was killed in
a railroad' accident while on 'his way to Europe July 2, 1880.
4 James Oscar. Born May 3, 1859. Mamed Ida Ruff
February 12, 1885. Business "mtein at Atltoitla, Georgia.
5 George Lee. Born October 13, 1861. Married Fana-e
McCutcheon January 22, 1885. President Cleveland Wooica
Mills, Cleveland, Tennessee.
6 Nwa Isabel. Born October 23, 1863. Married Joha
C. Ra.msey Maroh 30, 1883. Lives in Glevelan-d, Tennessee.
7 Miaggie Julia. Born May 20, 1866. Married James
L. Caldwell January 3, 1888. Died in Chattanooga, Ten-
nessee, September 2, 1897.
8 Fre'nch Montgomery. Born September 26, 1868, and
died May 4, 1869.
9 Houston Lafayette. Born March 29, 1870, and died
February 28, 1899.
10 Julius Holmes. Born December 4, 1872. Married
Florine Eslell Jones October 23, 1895, and died January
19, 1904.
11 Fannie Lucrelia. Born September 30, 1875, and
died from effects of a burn January 23, 1878.
12 Anna Bell. Born July 16, 1878. Married Reeveg
Brown October 15, 1903. Lives in Macon, Georgia.
For descendiantis of above see Howard Faniily in Vol. i
Notable Southern Families.
2 George Hardfwick. Born 1800. Married Ellen An-
drews 1825. Died 1867 in Missouri.
Their cMldren were:
James. Bom 1826.
George A. Born 1829.
145
Digitized by VjOOQIC
NOTABLE SOUTHERN FAMIUES
Hillard P. Bom 1833.
Pulton E. P. Borrn 1836.
3 ThonMS. Married Ana MoFarkne, but of their de-
•oendiants I kn-ow nothing.
4 Janf>es. (Nothing is known of him or his descend-
ants). -
5 M<ary. Married Joseph BarneM.
6 Cynthia. Marrted Rev. Mr. Pearson.
7 Joseph Tarj>ly. Horn August 3, 1811. Married
Rebekeh McFarlane 1837 and diedi 1851 or 1852 in Benlon
County, Arkansas.
Their <5hildren were :
Washington. Bc^rn 1838.
Thomas B. Born 1840.
Lucy. Bom 1843.
Rot)ert. Born 1844.
Williaim. Boini 1847.
8 Ghlarles F. ]3orn 1814. Married first Elizabeth
Holmes and second Amanda Strong or Stiroud.
GbiMren b>' first vvife :
Mary. Bom 1837.
Sop'hroni'a. Born 1842.
Riachel. Bom 1844.
1) Mollie HardAA'ick married Rene Fitzpatrick February
5, 1798y and died in Jasper Uouiity, Georgia.
1 GjTithia Hnrdwick f^'tzpalrick.
2 Nancy Fitzpatrick.
GynWhia H«ardwiok Fitzpatrick was born . Mar-
ried first John Byrom March 9, 1815, and died I)(»cember
16, 1882.
Thieir sonis Were:
1 William Hardwiick Byrom. Born August 21, 1817.
Married Susan Maria Gunn (born Jime 10, 1829), and died
Augu&t 18, 1873.
2 Sej-rmour Scott Byrom. Born Januarj 15, 1819, and
died October 15, 1827.
l%e children of the above William Hardwick Byrom and
Susjan Maria Gunn were:
1 Jo^hn Seymour Byrom.
2 Adella Virginia Byrom.
3 Anne Maud BjTom.
4 William Franklin Byrom.
1 John Seymour Byrom. Born September 3, 1849.
Married Mrs. Eoline Butts White (widow of Goodrich
Whiles May 3, 1876.
146
Digitized by VjOOQIC
HARDWIGK
Their chldren were :
1 William Hardwiek IJynwn (umnaiTied).
2 Seymour Birits Byrom.
(1) Seymoinr Rutls'lJynwn. Ilorn June 26 1880. Mar.-^ .
ried KaHh-erino Rogers Glaylon January 29, 1901.
1 John SejTiiour Byrom, Junior. Born 1901.
2 Kafherine Eolino' Byrom. Born 1903.
(2) Adella VirgdwiH Byrom. Born December 20, 1852,
Married James M. DuPree July, 1875.
Their chdldn^i are :
1 Juiia.
2^ James.
3 Hattie.
Of flhe above Julia Dupree married Lacy Boyd and
has one son, Jamies Boyd.
2 .I'ames Dupree, Junior. Married Ida Clews and ha-s
Jaimes Dupree third.
3 Hattie Dupree. Married Newman Gallaher and has
one dlaughiter, Harriet Gallaiher.
(3) Anwie Maud Byroim. Born February 20, 1853.
Married Willi»aim H. Clarke December, 1885, and died July
25, 1896.
Their children were:
1 Susiie Clarke.
2 Byrom Clairke.
3 William Clarke.
4 Pauline Clarke.
Susie Clarke married James Chapman and has one child,
Henry Chapm^an.
Byrom Clarke married Delphine Marion. Their children
are:
1 Lonisi'.
2 Delphine.
3 Marion.
William Clarke is unimarried.
Pauline Clarke married Alver Joiner and has one child,
Pauline Joiner.
(4) Witliam Franklin Byroim. Born May 12, 1856.
(5 Jiiliu Brooks Byrom. Born July 23, 1858. Mar-
ried Dempsy Brown Wimberly October 27, 1875.
Their children are :
1 Mary Wimberly.
r^ Brown Wimberly. (Unmarried).
Mary Wimberly mairried Norwood Robson and has two
dJaugbtere :
147
Digitized by VjOOQIC
I' NOTABLE SOUTHERN FAMIUES
1 Julia Wimbwly.
2 Narwood.
Cynthia Herdnvick Fitzpairick (wi<k>w of John Byrom>
AMfiUB snan^ed <b Ediward Varner July 6, 1823.
By this marriage Hh^ere were :
1 Andrew Ja^»on Varnep. Bom 1824. Died un-
married.
2 Jefferson Monroe Varner. Bora 1825 and died un-
married.
3 CiinAon Lafayette Varner. Born 1827.
4 Mary Josephine Varner. Born 1830 and died young.
5 John Caark Varner. Born 1832. Married Mary^
first 1884.
Cynthia Amanda Varner. Born 1835 and died un-
married.
7 Narcissa Josephine Varner. Born 1837 ( unmarried K
Clin ton Laifaye^te Varner. Married and had :
1 Frank Giunn Varner.
2 Andrew Jackson Varner.
3 JuHa Viarner. Married Gbapman.
4 Paul Varner.
5 Forrest Lee Varner.
6 Robert Lee Varner.
John Clark Varner. Married €md had :,
1 Gordon Varner.
2 Mary Neely Varner.
3 Valeria Lamar Varner. Married White.
4 Kenan Varner.
5 OyntMa Bird Varner. Married Sanders.
(2) Nancy FitzpaMck, daoigMler of MoUv Hardwick:
and Rene Fitzpatrick. Born October 2, 1804. Married
John Smith Davenport Bvrom March 3, 1818, and died!
September 3, 1877.
Their children were :
1 Henry Crawford Byrom. Born December 15, 1818.
Married, first, Miss Lay; second, Julia Harlan and childless.
Died December 21, 1849.
2 William Hardwick Byrom. Born October 2, 1825.
Married Julinah Fife 1846 and died Augxust 2, 1853.
3 Polly Byrom.
The children of \fhe above William H«uxlwick Byrom and
wife Julinah Fite Byrom were :
1 John S. D. Byrom, Junior.
2 Nancy Byrom.
3 William Henry C. Byrom.
148
Digitized by VjOOQIC
HARDWIGK
(1) John S. D. Byrom, Ju'ni'or. Bom 1848. Married,
first, Lenora Smith in 1873 and, second, Elizabeth Senter
in 1883.
(2) Nancy Byrom. Born 1850. Maimed 0. G. Harris
1873.
(3) William Heoiy B. (Doc) Bypom. Born November
23, 1852. Married Sudie R. Mayfield 1878.
Their children are:
1 Naocy Byrom. Bom June 30, 1881.
2 Julia Byrom. Bom September 27, 1883.
3 Alex. Mayfield Byrom. Born November 16, 1885.
4 Qra Byrom. Born November 1, 1887.
5 William Cainton Byrom. Bom June 20, 1892.
6 Majud Byrom. Bom Augoist 22, 1896.
(9) Peggy, mentioned in William Hairdwick's will and
unmarried in 1801-1803. Sh'e is fthoiught to have later mar-
ried a Venable.
The tides of emigralion seem to have carried the Hard-
wicks soutlh. The census of 1790 for Sooi'dh Qarolina gives
the following: In Oamden District, Chester Oounty, Hazel
HardWch and Moses Hardridge. In Geor^town District,
Prince George Parish, John Hardwick, Aaron H<ardwick,
and Samuel Hardwick. In Union Oounty, Thomas Hard-
wick. The descendants of the two William Hardwicfcs of
Geo^a are scattered from Georgia io Texas.
Th<e n^ame almost disappears from 'Westmoreland
Oounty, ViTginiia. On July 11, 1787, Aaron Hardage in this
county was granted license to marry Sallie Harrison, fn
1819 Aaron Hardwick bought of Richard Straugh. On
July 8, 1823, Daniel H. Hardwick w^ granted license to
marry Lucy Sondth. The writer is inibrmed Jtlhlat there is
.only <me person now in Westmc tand County of the
Hardwick name, and apparently none in Staflford, Prince
William, and Fauquier Counties.
Digitized by
Google
Digitized by
Google
HAYWOOD
John H-aywood, the founder of the Haywood family in
North (]laroliiia, was horn in (ihrisit Ohurch Parish, near
St. Michael's, in the Island of Barbadoes. He was the son
of Sir John Haywood, a younger brother of Sir Henry
Haywood, a Knight and Tn«agistrate in England and he
must have been a man of some note, as Evelyn in fei«
Memoirs speaks of having met him at court, noting his
"arrogant manner''.
John Haywood settled in 1730 at the mouth of the
Coneoanarie, in Halifax which was then a part of Edge-
comb, North Carolina. He was a man of importance in
the settleonent and was made treasurer of <the northern
counties of the Province in 1752. He held this office omtO
his death in 1758.
John Htiy^vood married Mary Lovett. Their seven
children were;
(I) Williaim Henry Haywood
(II) Sherwood Haj^wood
(III) Mary Haywood
(IV) Elizabeth Haywood
(V) Deborah Haywood
(VI) Egbert Haywood
(VII John Haywood', Second.
I WILLIAM HAYWOOD
William Henry Haywood, son of John Haj-wood, the
epi^^ant and his wife Mary Lovett Haywood, was bom
Bbout 1735. He was a member of the Committee of sajfelf
for the Halifax District, 1775; a member of the Provincial
Ckmgress at Halifax in April 1776; also a member of ifebe
»ame body at the same place in November 1776; and wu
one of the CJommiltee to form the State Constitution and
151
Digitized by VjOOQIC
NOTABLE SOUTHERN FAMILIES
was appointed a (member of the Gooincil of State. He lived
in Edjgeoomb County, North Carolina. He married Charity
Hare, presumably about 1755. They had ten children :
( 1 ) Jeminrn Hayvvood
(2) John Haywood
1 3) Ann Haywood •
(4), Charity Haywood
(5) Mary Haywood
(6) Sherwood Haywood
(7) Elizabeth HayVood
(8) William Henry Haywood, Second
(9) Stephen Haj^'ood'
(10) F]lizabeth Hiav^w'o^od
Of 'the foregoing:
(1) Jemima Haywood, daughter of William Henry Hay-
wood and his wife Charity Hare Haywood, married John
Whitfield of Lenoir. She died in 1837. Her childri^n were
(a) Williaan Haywooct Whillield (who married twice and
left seven children) ; (b) Oonstantine Whitfield (who lePk
five children) ; (c) Sherw«ood Whitfield (who died unmar-
ried) ; (d) John Waiter Whitfield (who left three child.ren) ;
(e) Jemima WhWfield (who married first Middleton,
and second, Williams and left six children); (f)
Mary Rufiin Whitfield; (g) Keziaih Arabella Whitfield (who
left three children) ; (h) Rachel Daniel Whitfield (who
married John Jones and had five childiren) ; (i» George
Washington Whitfield.
(2) John Haywood, son of Colonel William Henry Hay-
wood and his wife Charity Hare Haywood was state Treas-
urer of Nortlh Carolina for forty years. He married twice,
flrst, Sarah Leigh, and second Eliza Williams, daughtser of
John Pugh Williams. He had six children: (a) Jjo^hn Hay- •
wood (who died unmarried) ; (b) George Washington
Haywood (Who d-ied unmarried) ; (c) Thomas Burges Hay-
woiod (who dSed unmarried) ; (d) Dr. Fabius Jiulius Hay-
wood (who married Mar<thia Whitaker and had four chil-
dren, Fabius Julius Haywood, second, Joihn Pugh Hay-
wood, Joseph Haywood, and Mcu^y Haywood who married .
Judge Daniel G. Fowler) ; (e) Frances Ann Haywood (who
died unmarried) ; (f) Edmund Burke Haywood (who mar-
ried Lucy Williams and had seven children: Edmund
Burke Haywood, second, Alfred Haywood. Dr. Hubert Hay-
wood, Ernest Haywood, Edgar Haywood, John Haj*wood
and Eliza Hayw^ood', who married Preston Bridgers.
152
Digitized by VjOOQIC
HAYWOOD
(3) Ann Haywood, daughter of Colonel William Henry
Haywood and wife, Gharity Haywood, was bom in 1760
and died' in 1842. She married Dr. Robert Williaims, a
surgeon in the Continental Army and) had two children:
(a) Eliza Williaans (wiho married Reverend John Single-
ton and had three sons, Colonel Goorge B. Singleton who
w^s killed in battle, Colonel Richard Singleton and Colonel
Thomas Singleton) ; (b) Dr. Robert Williams, second (who
mairied and left children).
(4) Gharity Haywood, daughter of Colonel William
Henry Haywood and his wife Charity Hare Haywood, mar-
ried Colonel Lawrence of Alabama, and leflt three c^hildren.
(5) Mary Haywood, daughter or Colonel William Henry
Haj-wood and his wife Oharillj^ Hare Haywood, married
Ethelred Rulfiin and had two children: (a) Sarah Ruffln
(who marriedl Dr. Heur>' Haywood; (b) Henry G. Ruflin
(w^ho married Tart and had two sons, Colonel
Samuel Ruflin and Colonel Thoonias Huffin (who was killed
at the Battle of Ha^milton Crossing in Virginia).
(6) Sherwood Haywood, son of Colonel William Henry
Haywood and his wife Charity Hare Haywoodi, was born
in 1782. He died in 1829. He married Eleanor Hawkins
(wlio wias born 1776, died 1855). They had nine children:
(a Ann Haj-wood (who married William A. Blount, and
bad children, Major William A. Blount, second, of Raleigh,
and Ann Blount, who married General L. O'Bryan Branch
and h-ad Susan 0'Bry«an Branch, married RobertI H. Jones,
William A. Branch; and Ann Branch, married
Armisftead Jones; and Josephine Branch, who married Kerr
Craige of Salisbury) ; (b) Sartdh Haywood (who married
twice, first John Gray Blount and second Gavin Hoggj
leaving no children by either husband) ; (c) Delia Haj'wood
(who married twice, first General William Williams and
second George E. Badger. Her son by her first marriage
was Colonel Joseph John Williams of Tallahassee, Florida.
By her second marriiage she had seven cihildren, namely:
Mary Badger, mamed P. M. Hale, George Badger, second.
Major Richard Oogdell Badger, Thomas Badger, Sherwooa
Badger, Edward Stanley Badger, and Ann Badger, \\1io
mamed twice, first Bryeui and second. Colonel Paul
Bfidson) ; (d) Dr. Rufus Haj'wood (who died ummarried) ;
(©) Lucy Haywood (w4io married John S. Bryan ^aaid had
four children, niamely: A daughter wfeo married Bail
Manly, a diaughter who married Thomas Badger, a
daughter who married William H. Young and John S.
153
Digitized by
Google
NOTABLE SOUTHERN FAMILIES
Bryan, second,) ; (f ) Francis P. Haywood (who married
Iwice, first Ann Parell and second Mrs. MapfJha ioyner
Austin, daughter of Colonel Andrew Joyner of Halifax; (g)
Robert W. Hiaywood (who married Mary White and left
one child; Mary Hiaywood) ; (h) Maria T. Haywood (who
never married) ; (i)" Dr. Richard B. Haywood (who m:ir-
ried Julia Hicks and hlad eight children, namely: Sher-
wood Hiaywood, Graham Haywood, Eiliie Haywood (who
married Colonel Carl A. Woodruff, U. S. A.), Lavinia Hay-
wood, Howard Haywood, Marshall Haywood, Eleanor Hay-
wood and Marian Haywood).
The next child in tihis listi as given by Wheeler's Remi-
niscence is Elizabeth Haywood (seventh child of William
Henry Haywood and his wife Charity Hare Haywood).
However the tenlth child is also given as Elizabeth Haj^wood
and as married to Governor Edward B. Dudley, there is
inianifestly an error. I conclude that the error is in Uie
naarne of this daughter who married Henry Irwin Toole, as
Governor Edward B. Dudley is clearly given in the Dudley
record as married to Elizabeth Haywood. However the
record as given in Wheeler's Reminiscences is :
(7) Elizabelth Haywood, daughter of Colonel \Miham
Henry Haywood and his wife Charity Hare Haywood, was
born 1759. She died 1832. She married Henry Irwin Toole.
First, of Edgecoonb, who was born in 1750 and died in 1791.
They had three children, (a) Henry Irwin Toole, Second
born 1768, died 1816 (who married Ann Blount, daughter
of Governor William Blount of Tennessee and left Iv/o
c>hildi*en, namely Heni*y Irwin Toole, Third, born 18 !0, died
1850, married Margairet Telfair and Mary Eliza Toole, bow
1812, married Dr. Josep^h J. LawTence of Tarboro, North
Oai-olina) ; (b) Arabella Toole (who married Jamies West
Clarke) and (c) Mary Toole (who married TheophiKis Par-
ker, born 1775, died 1849, at Tarboro. They had six ohiJ-
di^en, namely : Reverend John Hayw ood Parker, born 1815,
died 1858, Oatherine C. Parker, bom 1817, married twice,
flrs^t John Hargrave and seond Reverend Rolx^rt B. Dniue:
Elizabeth T. Parker, born 1820, Reverend Joseph Blou»it
CSiesJiire; Miarv^ W. Parker, born 1822, married twict\ first
Pmnk Hargrave and married second, Governor Henry T.
Clark; Colonel Francis M. Parker, and Arabella i\ Parker.
(8) William Henry Haywood, Second, son of Colonel
William Henrj^ Haywood and his wife Charity Hare Hay-
woiod was born 1770; he died 1857. He married Aane
Sheperd and had three children: (1) William Henry H:iy-
154
Digitized by VjOOQIC
HAYWOOD
wood, Third, born 1810. He was* United States Senator from
North Carolina. He married Jane Graibam and bad nine
children, namely: William Henry Haywood, Fourth, (who
was killed in the Battle of the Wil<iemess) ; Dunctn
Cameron Haywood (who was killed a)t the Battle of G4)ld
Harbor), Edward G. Haywood, Minerva Haywood (who
mairied Baker), Jane Haywood (who inarric^d Sion
H. Rogers), Ann Haywood fwho married Samuel Riggin),
Margaret Haywood (wiho married Cameron), G»^r-
trude Haywood ( v^^ho married George Trapier) , and Eli la-
beth Haywood wjio died iwumarried) ; (2) Charity Haywjod
married Governor Charles Manly and had eight children,
namely: Colonel Jcuhn H. Manly (who married Carolin3
Henry,) Langdon C. Manly, Cora Manly (who juarried
Colonel George B. Sifiigle'lary), Helen Manly (wh-p married
John Grimes), Julia Manly (who married Colone'l
McDowell (who wnas killed in The War Ik^ween the Slates),
Sophia Manly (who married Harding), Ida Manly
(who married Dr. Joseph Baker of Tarbon>), and Basil
Manly, Coimmander of Manly's Batterj' in the \\'ar Between
the Sitates, who married Lucy Br>-aii.
(9) Step'hcn Haywood, born 1772, died 1824, son of Wil-
liam Henry Haywood and his wife Charity Hare' Haywood
married twdce, first Lane, by whom 'he had 'IXvo sons,
Dr. John Leigh Haywood and Benjamin Franklin Hay\vood,
and married second, DeMa Hawkins by w"hoim lie had five
children, namely: William Dallas Haywood (who married
Mary CSannon), Margaret Craven Haywood (who married
George Little) ; Lucinda Haywood (who married
Sasser) , -Sarah Hatj^wood, and Philefmom H. Haj^vood of
the United States Navy.
(10 Elizabeth Haywood is given in Wheeler's Reminis-
cence, from which most of 'this data was obtained, as the
tenttti child of William Henry Haywood, First, and his wife
Qh'arity Haywood. As the S(»venPh ch'Hdis a;ls»o listed €ls
Elizabeth and is given as im«arried to Heiiryl Irwiii 'rm'le,
there is manife^^tly an error. However tihe recoi^l as it ap-
pears in Wheeler is: Elizabeth Haywood (tenth child)
married Governor Edward B. Dudley. They had six chil-
dren, namely: Edward B. Dudley, Second, William Heavy
Dudley (<\VTho married Baker), Christopher Dudljy,
Eliza Ann Dudile>* (who married . PurnelH, Ja.*ie
Du(Mey (who married Julinson), and Margaret Dni-
ley (wiio married Colonel Mellhenny).
In an account of the Dudley Family, also in Wheebr,
155
Digitized by VjOOQIC
NOTABLE SOUTHERN FAMIUES
Governor Edward B. Dudley is clearly given as married to
Elizabeth Haywood. I't is therefore probable that the Eliza-
beth Haywood who is given as the seventh child and mar-
ried to Hf*nry Irwin Toole is an error.
II SHERWOOD HAl^UOOD
II Sherwood Haywood, son of John Haywood of Gonc-
canarie and his wife Mary Lovatt Haywood, married Han-
nah Gray and had one son, Adam John Haj^wood (who
married his cousin Sarah Haj^wood, daughter of Egbert
Haywood and his wife Sarah Ware Haywood^. They had
one daughter, Margaret Hiaywood( diied 187^), who was
the wife of Louis D. Henr>', born 1788, died 1840. and had
one daughter, Virginia Henry (wlio anarried. Colonel Dun-
can K. McRea) ; Caroline Henry (who married Colonel John
H. Manly) ; Augusta Henrj^ who (married R. P. Waring) ;
Margaret Henry (who married Edwiard G. Haywood) ; Mary
Henry (who married Mathew P. Tajior) ; Malvina Heni*y
(who' married Douglass Bell), and Looiis D. Henry, second,
(who jmarried Virginia Massenburg) .
Ill MARY HA^'WOOD
III Mary Haywood, third' child of John Haj-wood of
Goneoanarie and his wife Marj- Lovett Haywood, married
the Reverend Thomas Rurgess in 1761. Their son, Lovett
Burgess, married twice, first, Priscilla Monnie and second,
Mrs. Black. By the last marriage he had five children,
namely: Mary Burg(»ss (who married Alston, 1824).
Elizabeth Burgess (who married Alston of Bedfora
County, North Carolina 1812), Melissa Burgess (w^ho mar-
ried General William Williams, whose daiugWter Melissa
Williams married Odouel Joseph John Lrong and their
daiight^T Ell<»n Long married General Junius l)aniel who
was kill(»d at Ghanc(41ors\411e) , John Burf ord (who married
Martha Alston) , and Thomas Burgess (wiho was a lawyer
of Halifax and left no children).
IV ELIZABETH HA\WOOD
IV Elizabetih Haywood, daughter of John Hayw^ood of
Conecanarie and his wife Mary Lovett Hayv^'ood, married
Jesse Hare and died in 1774. ' She had two children,
namely: Ann Hare (who married Isaac Groom; their son
Isaac Groom, second, marred Sarah Pierson), and Maiy
Hare (who married twice, first Richard Groom and second,
Hicks),
156
Digitized by VjOOQIC
HAYWOOD
V DEBORAH HAYWOOD
V DEBORAH HAYWOOD, cteughter of John Haywood
of Gonecanarie ami his wife Mary Lovett Haywood, mar-
ried John Hardy, bulf left no children.
VI EGBERT HAYWOOD
VI. Egbert, the sixth c?hild of John Haywood, of Goneca-
naire, and his wife Mary Lovett Haywo(>d, married Saraii
Ware. He died in 1801. They haKJ five children, namely:
(a) Sarah; (b) John; (c) Henry; (d) Mary, and (e) Betsy,
or as variously given, Elizabeth.
(a) Sarah marrted her cousin, Adam John Haywood.
(b) Joihn Haywood, second child and first son of Egbert
Haywood and his wife, Sarah Ware, is of especial interest
because he became a faimous Judge in North Carolina and
a great historian. Haywood^s History of Tennessee is one
of the mosit importanit volumes in Tennessee and Southern
history. Judlge John Haywood is ancestor of the Tennessee
family of the name, mos^l of whom reside in West Ten-
nessee.
Judge Joihn Haywood married Martha Edwards and they
had, among other children, George W. Haywood (who mar-
ried Sallie Dabney and whose descendan'ls arc in Giles
Gounty, Tennessee, one of whom bears the family name
Egbert Haj^wood (w*ho married Su-san Gannon Glasgow,
and has descendonts in Brownsville, Tennessee).
(c) Henry Haywood, a physician, married Sarah
Rufiin.
(d) Mary Hay'wood married a lawy<T whose name is
given on one page of Wheeler's Rtuniniscences as (Captain
Robert Bell and on another Captain William Bell.
(As their first son was named William Hay-
wood Bell and as they had no son Robert, it is probable
that he was named William Bell). Captain Bell died leaving
a large family of small children. Their mother's sis^lier,
Betsy or Ehzabeth, was married to Colonel William Shep-
perd. Colonel and Mrs. Shepperd took the orphaniHl Be'ls
into their family, adopted Ihem and raised them to useful
lives. Margaret Bell, the first child, married firsit
Duffle, an eminent lawyer of North Carolina, married
157
Digitized by
Google
NOTABLE SOUTHERN FAMILIES
second, Dr. Buchanon, of St. Stephens, Akbama,
and married third, Adlai Osbo^rne, leaving by him one son,
Egbert Osborne, who married Margaret Stmdwick, a niece
of Ciolonei Sheppord (daughter of Marth'a Shepperd, and
Mf>j or William F. St-riulwick, of Hillsboro, North Carolina;.
William Hayw-ood Bell en^lered the United Slates Army
and rose to a Caplain's coffiidnissi^Mi. While a second L'eii-
tenant 'he invented a contrivance for tairning heavy ordi-
nance witih rapidity. For this invention the Government
voted him an appropriation of $25,000, which money he
invesited in St. Louis real estate. The city grew rapidly and
Captain Bell became inmiensely weM*hy. When about to
die, shortly after tbe close of the War Between the States,
he willed a large ^hare of 'his pro|x^rty to tihe descendamls of
his ''benefactor,'' Oolonel WilWaim Shepperd, of Orange
County, North Carolina. Henry Haywood Be»ll became an
admiral in Khe Unitt^d States Navy. John Bell becam«* a
daptain hi ihe United; Staites Navy. ElizabeJl'h J. Bell mar-
ried Thoanas Ashe, grandson of Governor Ashe, and the
other daughter, Bell, married Dr. How^ell, of
West Tennessee.
(e) B<Nlsy Haywood, or Elizabeth as sometimes given,
married Colonel Williaim Shepperd. (This coupile gener-
ously ad(Kj)ted their sister's child»ren and ^raised them, iis
no*ed in foregoing paragrapih). Colonel and Mrs. William
Shepperd had eight children, name^ly: (1) Sarah; (2) Betsy;
(3) Susan; (4) Mary; (5) Marga«;et; (6) William; (7)
Egbrrt; (8) Henry. (1) Sarah married Honorable William
B. Grove, of Fayettesville, a member of Congress (1791-
1802); they iliad a son, l>avid, who married' Susan Ashe;
(2) Betsy, named for tier mother, maiiTied Colonel Samuel
Ashe, born 1763 and died in 1835. (They had children Betsy
Ashe, \Vho married Owen Holmes; Mary Porter Ashe, who
married Dr. S. G. Moses, of SI. Louis; John B. Ashe, member
of Congress from Tennessee, who married ihis cousin, Eliza
Hay, and moved to Texas; William S. Ashe, who married
Siarah Ann Gre(Mi; Thomas A^he, who maiTied Rosa Hill;
Richard Porter Ashe, of San Francisco, who married Una
Loyal; Susan Ashe, who married he«r oousin, David Grove,
and Saira'h Asihe who married hnige Samuel Hall, of
Georgia. (3) Susan Shepperd mawied David Hay. (Their
child, Eliza Hay, married Honorable J. B. Asihe, as above
158
Digitized by VjOOQIC
HAYWOOD
noled. (4) Mmy Shej)perd maiTied Samuel P. Ashe, of
Halifax. Nonth Carolina. (5) Margaret Shepperd married'
Dr. John Rogers. (6, 7, 8) William, Egbert and Henpj' Shep
perd probably died unmarried, ^\^leeler says that another
daughter of this family "mairied n Mr. Johnston and moved
to Tennessee". This may refer to a second marriage of one
of the daughters.
VII JOHN HAYWOOD, SECOND
VII John Haywood, second, son of John Haywood of
Onieeanarie nnd his wife Mary Lovett, died umnarried.
Digitized by
Google
Digitized by
Google
HOLLIDAY
HALLIDAY
Arms were granted to Walter Halliday in 1470 by Ed-
ward IV., and confirmed to liis descendant Sir Leonard
Halliday who was Lord Mayor of London 1640.
1 Walter Halliday, Majster of the Revels to Edward
IV., had among others a son, Henry, who married Miss
Payne of Paynes Court, and was sea;teKl at Minchin Hamp-
ton.
2 T'heir &on, William Halliday, -married Saraih Bridges,
Aunt to Lord CShandas.
3 Their son, Sir Leonard Halliday, married' Ann, daugh-
ter and heiress of William Dincat or Dinhold, of Laug-
ham, Suffolk, widow of Henry, Earl of Lancaster.
4 Their son, John, seated at Froime, married Alice,,
daughter of Alderman Ferravs.
5 Their son, Thomas, settled in Virginia, married the
^\iidow of Gol. John Hinton.
Vol. II Colonial Families iji U, S. by George N. Mc-
Kenzie, says :
'^Thomas Halliday, (son of John of Frome, England),
was living in Jamestown in 1660, and liad eleven children.
But only Cwo are 'mentioned in the record at Williamsburg,
ThooTKas the ancestor of the Maryland family and John
Marshall, ancestor of the Virginia family.
Thomas Halliday of Jamestown (James City Go.)
patented landl in Isle of Wight Coianty.
And'hony Halliday of Isle of Wight Oounty, was a son
of Thomas of Jaimesil'own, and mentions Ms brother, Mar-
shall, in his» will, *'Lands purchased froon his in 1717''. -
The three sons of Thomas Halliday, 1., (son of John of
Prome, England), and the first of the name in Virginia,
were.
A. Thomas, 2., <died 1703, married Miss Trueman, set-
161
Digitized by VjOOQIC
NOTABLE SOUTHERN FAMILIES
tied ill Prince George Coaiiityj Md.
B. Anthony, 2., will dal-ed January 1818, married prior
to 1671, the widow of John Brewer, of Isle of Wight County.
Va, John Marshall, who settled in Sjwtsylvania Coointy,
Virginia, died in 1742.
'Rue Hallidays gave Khe land on wtiich old St. John's
Church is built. ITie vestry book is extlant in Suffolk now
begins in 1749, and the Halliday^s from father to son were
vestr>^-men and wardens.
HOLLinAY
Tfhonias 2., Thoimas 1, of Virginia, (John of England)^
settled in Prince George Coainty, Marytand, 1703, married
Miss Trueman of England. Ha<l sons.' •
1 James Hallid'ay of ReacJbmirne, Queen Anne Col
Maryland.
2 Cbl. Leonard Holliday of Brookfield, Prince George
County, Maryland. No record.
Hon. James Halliday of Read-bourne, boirn June 18, 1696
died 1747, married May 3. 1720, Mrs. Sarah »Oovingft<)n
Lloyd (widows and had':
1 James Halliday, eminent lawyer and colonial ela'tes-
man.
2 Henry, bom March 9, 1725, di^d November 11. 1789
3 Sarah.
4 Talbot, married December 9, 1749, Anna Maria
Robins of Peajch Blossom, had:
1 Henrietta Maria.
2 Samli.
3 Anna Maria, born December 9, 1756.
4 James (below).
5 Thomas.
6 Rebecca.
7 Elizabeth.
8 Henrj'.
9 Margaret »
Prince George Coimty, Marjiand, Census, 1776.
James Holliday 35 years, wife Elizabeth 25 years.
William 1 j^ear.
Elizaljeth 8 years.
Mary 7 vears.
HOLLIDAY '
Anthony 2, (Thonms 1. John of England).
SettJed in Isle of Wight Cvounty, Mrginia, married prior
to 1671, the widow of John Brewer of same County. An-
162
Digitized by VjOOQIC
HOLLIDAY
thony was Burgess of Isle of Wight in 1690, and other
years. Was one of the Jfiistices and according to the records,
was a lawyer.
His Wll is dated 1717, proved' January 1718, his chil-
dren wei^ :
1 Jonas, will dated July 4. 1713-14, died 1717, married
Hannah.
2 Joseph', born 1669, (probably l(he oldest), died about
1712-13, married Charity; had, 1. John, 2. Anthony, 3.
Lemuel, imentioned in the will of Jonas, Anthony, Jonas,
Sarah and Mary. 4. Brewer 'had daug'hters, on-e Elizabeth.
3 Lemmel, no record.
4 Brewer, no record.
5 Sarah, no record.
6 Mary, no record.
7 Anthony, no record.
Anthony 4 (Joseph 3, Anthony 2, Thomas,) called An-
thony II, married Elizabeth Oodivvin, and 'their children
w^re :
1 Oharity. who nia«rried Jonathan God^win.
2 Mary, who manned Jeromiah Godwin.
3 Thomas, who married Mar>' BiH^uer.
The children of Thomas Hojliday and Mary Brewer
were :
1 ElizalK»th, who 'married Jivsiiali Godwin.
2 Brewer, 'marrindl bul no sons.
3 Andrew, left hc^mie after (|»uanH»Iing Avith his father.
4 Captain Joseph, boni^ 1730, died 1814, served in
Revolutioimry war, uiarrii^d Patience Godwin, had a son,
James, who married .\ima Gray (iodwin.
Joseph Holliday served as Liemfenant in f^ptain
N«ithnniel Fox's f^iOmpany, 6th Virginia Regiment, born in
Nausemowd County.
Jonas 3, (Anthony2, Thomas 1, (1st in Vi'rginia.) Was
burgess fm- Norfolk Countv, is styled as Jonas Hallidav
Gent. Will d'ated Jiuly 4. i"/ 13-14. 'l^^'t no children. Men'-
tions his brothers and sistei^s. Wife Hannah was E. Upon
death of his sister-in-law. Clarity Halloday, wife of his
brollher, Joseph, lately d»^eased, he leaves t he property
given her t'o his son, iivhn, at death. Elsewhere in llie
will, he calls this John an'd his brother Anthony his Cous-
ins, sons of his brother Joseph, lately cteceased.
The first mention of Joiuis in Norfolk County, records
is in 1705, when as justice he is present at the term of (M)unt.
He had a patent of tand in 1711. Wife, Hannah, maiden
m
Digitized by VjOOQIC
NOTABLE SOUTHERN FAMIUES
name probably Halliday, as in court records she is styled
Mrs. Hanna'h Hollidlay, Holliday.
Jonias Holliid'ay received 93 acres in Norfolk County, for
iransporling Robert Sluard' and Hannah Holliday into
the Ck)lony, April 27, 1711.
W«LS shel-iff o'f Norfolk County, 1713-14-18.
Williaim Holliday, broilher of John Marshall, Thomas
an-d Anthony, St George's Parish, died December 4, 1744.
Will proved Mlay 6, 1746, Ex-sons Charles and Robert, Leg.
Wife Anne, sons John* Ohades, George and Robert.
Daughter, Elizabeth,, wife of Thomas Dillard; daughter
Ann, wife of John Robinson; grandson of John Robinson;
grandson William Holliday, and of Robert; grandson Wil-
liam Hollidlay, son of John.
(Query).
Goaild above John be one ^\iio married Elizabeth Long
and died 1762, and bad «a son, William, born 1751, who
married Catherine Hutt6n, and had Roberit, Thomas, Louise,
Hatriel and Marj'.
Second Generation
Elizabeth 2, daughter of William 1st, (who di(^d 1744),
wife of Thomas Dillard. He died October 23, 1774, will
proved December 15, 1784, Ex. wife Sarah, son John Dil-
lard and Elisha Desmukes.
My firs* wife's children, Joseph, John, William, James.
Thomas Dillard, Ann Peters, Jane Devall, Lucy, Han-
nah DillarvJ, My wife's children, Richard, Fielding and
Mary.
NOTE. All page references in following records are
to Orozier's Spotsylvania CounCy Reords, unless otherwse
stated.
JOHN MARSHALL HOLLODAY, II OF VIRGINIA
Gapttiin Jchn HoUoday, II, (Thomas I), Captain of Vir-
ginia Rangers of Spotsylvania 'County, Virginia where he
was located in 1702. Lived on East Creek in Southwest part
of County where he is buried. Home called Bellefonte,
f roan springs near by. An act of Virginia Assembled ordered
court to be heM in the home of /John Holloday until court
house could be complied.
Session vms held in Capt&in Jo^hn's son's house, John
junior, April 7/Ih, 1779. Always called' John Holloday
Gent. Wife Anne Lewis (or Elizabeth). Find him as wit-
ness to many wills and deeds in Spotsylvania County.
He died November 4th, 1742. Will provedi at St. Georges
164
Digitized by VjOOQIC
HOLLIDAY
Parish King William County, December 7lh, 1742. Witness
John Waller, John Waller, junior and Thomas Gartwrig*ht
Ex. sons Joseph £uid Benjamin and son-in-law Thomas Pul-
liam.
1 Gives son William 200 acresof land.
2 Gives son John 250 acres of land.
3 Gives son Daniel 200 acres of land.
4 Gives son Joseph 300 acres of land.
5 Gives son Benjamin 300 acres of land.
6 Gives daughltei- Elizabeth 300 acres of landl (Wife of
Pattison Pulliam).
7 Gives daughter Winifred 300 acres of land. (Wife of
Thomias Pulliaim).
8 Gives daughter Sarah 300 acres of land. (Wife of
James Rollins).
9 Gives daughter Susanna 200 acres of land.
October 7th, 1735, John Hollovray Gent of Spts. County,
to Thomas Pulliam, Plant, of same CJoiunty, 200 acres in
Spls. Gounlly.
November 6flh, 1739, Thomas Seriain of St. George Par-
ish, Spts. County to John Holloday, senior, of said Parish,
25 pds. curr. and 200 acres, tec.
John Hollo»diay received 400 acres of land. Moved from
lower Virginia on Pamusky R. to Spotsylvania County ten
miles above N. Wales in 1711. His wife, Elizabeth received
400 acres in 1724 in St. George Parish.
NOTE
Hayden, p. 358.
*'Goaii1t met at the house of John BoUiday , junior, on
Wedtiesday, April 7llh, 1779, as John the first (Captain
John) was then de<ad, and John II, who died June 1780 was
then John HoUidteiy. senior, the John in question was a son,
if not a nephew or Jiolhn II.''
Third Generation
1 William HoUiday, III, (John II, Thomas I,) mention-
ed flrsH in will. Born about 1720. N(o record but deed dated
August 2nd, 1743 (p. 163,) St. George Parsh. "William
HoUoday and Judtey, his wlife, to John Hiollo<tey, of same
Parish. 30 pds. coirr. and 200 acres of land in said Coimty.
Ear* 01 patent gr<an»ted Tihloiiias Sertain May 6th. 1727, and
y him conveyed bo John Holloday Gent. decW! father of
said William.
Deed p. 149, November 6th, 1739, Thomas Seiitain of St.
165
Digitized by
Google
NOTABLE SOUTHERN FAMILIES
Georgo Pari&h, Spte. Ck>uuty, to Joihn Holloday, senior, of
said Parish and- iQounly 25 pete, -of curr. and 200 -acres, with
planlfation, said Serl^ain noiw lives on, an'cP pant of patent
gi'ari'ted s^aid Se*pfaiin, May 6th, 1727. Wit. Joseph Thomas,
Daniel HoUoday and Elizabeil'h Holloday.
Third Generation
2 John Holloday 3, (John 2, Sr. Gent. ITiomas 1.) was
born -about 1728.
His will in Spots^ylvania Ckmnty- proved April 8th, 1781.
Ex. bond dated! Novamber 15fh, 1781. Ex. bros. Joseph
end Benjamn, wife, TabiU'ha 2nd wife), sons William and
Benjamin, daughters, Lucy, Anna and Elizabeth. Men-
tions four children of Elizabeth, wife of John Penn, also
son Joihn by first wife, Elizabeth Rawlings (Daughter of
James Rawlin«gs, who died 1757).
Deed January lOllh, 1749
"Joh« Hollo»day of St. George Parish land Elizabeth, his
wife, to Thomas McGee, etc."
Deed August 16tlh, 1770.
**John Holloday and Elizabeth, his wife, of Spts. Gounty
to their son, John Holloday, junior, Deed of gift".
Deed November 21st, 1771.
•'John Holloday, senior, and Elizabeth, his wife," and
again in 1776, (All children must have been by first wife.)
Then do 1777, December 13lh, (p. 336) we find ^Tabitha
Gatewood*, widow, and John Holloday, widlower, to Wil-
liam Golson in trust, for use of the Gafewood and Holloday
etc.
Tabitha Gatewood, widow of Henry Gatewood, was the
daughter of Joseph and Susannah Gollins. He died August
1759. Will d^te« November 1st, 1757.
Henry Gatewood died January 28)lh, 1777. Sons, Rich-
ard Diidlej", Henrj', William and Anne, his wife, Peter and
Larkin. Daiughters, Keziah Sandridge and Doro4hv Foster.
Deedi (p. 348) Septem'ber 10th, 1779.
John Holloddlay and Tabitha, his wife, of Spts. Gounty,
to James Tate, etc. Witness, John Holloday, junio(r»
'Fourth Generation
The children of Elizabeth and Joseph Penn were Phillip.
Moses, Thomas, Gatiherine, Mary and Francis.
166
Digitized by
Google
HOLLIDAY
^'Children of said Joseph, wife ElizabeWi Penn. Estate
put in tnist Seplember 19th, 1763.
John III, OP now John junior, appears in deed of 1771,
with Mildred, his wife, of Berkley Pari-sh.
John junior, died Jime 17th, 1781, Iw^o mon)t9is after his
fallher.
Deed June 28th, 1783.
**Benj. JKJihnson to Mildred Hollod^y, wJd'ow and ex. of
John Holloday'\
Mildred HoUoday, married Ahrain Simons. See deed
p. 482.
Children of John andf Mild(red Holloday, February 6th,
1786-7, Abram Simons, Guard, tlo Sally, Benj. and Peggy
Hollod«ay, orphans of John Holloday.
1795, John Wood Guard, to Polly Hollidiay, Vincent Vass
Guard, to John Holliday; orphans of John Holloday.
Dee/di April 1st, 1788, p. 415.
Agathn, Wife of Benj. Weeks.
Elizabeih, wife of John Wood.
Ann {(JT Nancy) wife of Norcut Slaven.
Sarah, single at the time of deed. Laiter manned Mr.
Freeman.
All these in dcM^d' went to Wilkes (bounty, Georgia.
Deed Febnuary 7th, 1786.
•*Owen Thomas Holloday, orphan, son of John Holliday,
3}ge 16 years 13th of Sepllember last (born 1769), appren-
tice, etc".
Mildred Holloday, wife of John Holloday, junior, was the
wicJow of ()wen Thomas. November 14Ph, 1768, p. 265,
Mildred Thomas, of Spts. Goainty to her two ohildtt^n, James
and Agne^, uiife of Thomas Merry, etc. Deed of gift, rigiit
or title she may 'hiave imder will of her husband, Owen
Thomas, deceasixi'\ XA'itness, (). Thomas, John Hollodiay,
junior.
Deed April 17tih, 1772, p. 76.
•John Hollo'dlay Guard, to Robert, James and Sally
Thomas, orphans of Owen Thomas, with Benj. Holloday
and Joseph Holloday".
John Holloday, jamior, must »have 'h«ad two wives. If
Mildred was still Mildred Thomas in 1768 (lime of deed to
her cfhlMl'en), then Owen Thomas Holloday was her oldest
child (born 1769) by John Holloday.
The four daughters who weire married at time of deed
107
Digitized by
Google
NOTABLE SOUTHERN FAMILIES
1788, Agatha, Elizabetti, Ann and Samh nnwl hav<» boon
children of first w^ife. Althoug^h no track of hvv is to bo
found in dei»d or Counlij- records.
Third Generation
3 Josi'^ph Holloday (third son of John II, senior. Gent.
Thomas 1) born 1720. Mamod Klizabeth Lewis uiaugh-
/ter of Henrv Lewis^, about 1747-8. He died September
23rd, 1785. (Hayden says July 24th, 1795.
Ex. Bond da'ted Sepilernber Ist. 1795. p. 51 (.Vozier). •
Ex. sons Lewis, Janu(»s Josejrh, Benj. Stejihen John,
William and Tho.nias.
Daiughters, Jemima, Betty and Winifred.
Codicil 'dlated, July 17Kh, 1795, imentions s-niis. Stej)hr'n,«
John, Ijewis and Thomas, andtJaughte^rs, Jeniifma, P»etty and
Winifred.
Deed July 1st," 174(), Joseph Holloday of SjWs. ijtuuly to
Zacliary LnVis, of same jmrt of hui'.i.s devised
said Joseph by last will and tes^am'ent of his fathtr, John
Holloday, d<t^c6ased.
Deed October 7th, 1765 ,Josep'h Holloday of Sj>s. (vounty
and Elizabeth, Ms wife, to Benj. Lewis, of siairt County, etc.
pant of tract devised said Joseph by 'his fatht r, John Hollo-
dlay, deceased.
Joseph Holloday served in Ihe Revolution, Ensign, Feb-
ruary 16th, 1776,' 2nd, Lieut. September lltih, 1776, Isl,
Lieut. March 1st, 1777 Promotc^d to Qaptadn Continental
line, 1780. Was in BatUes of Guilford, Ganuden and York-
town. Enlisled under Caphiin N'at. Fox and Col Stubble-
field (Qrozier p. 234).
Joseplh and F^lizabeth Lewis Holloday had eleven child-
ren.
Fourth Generation
1 John, born Sepitemlier 1749, Sp<s. County. Dienl May
21st, 1819. Killed by hogshead of tobacco rolling down hill
on him. Served in the Revolutionary War in (iaptain
Thomas Minor's Spts. Troops, 1780. Ma^ed Martha
Winstion. Had son, John.
(Hayd^*n says he moved to Clarke Oountv, Ken!(uckv, in
1795.)
2 Lewis, born 1751, died October 20th, 1820, married,
March 15th, 1774, ElimbeKh (Lewis) LiWlepage, widow of
Col. James liltlepage. He died 1769. She "vvas the daugh-
ter Zachar>' Lewis, and was born in 1732. Lewis Hollo-
day was. Overseer of the poor in SjWs. (iOunlV, froni 1783
108
Digitized by
Google
HOLLIDAY
to 1788. He served in bhe Revolutionary War as 2nd Lieut,
under Oaplain Tlvomas Minor, wihh his broilher, John.
Lived at Bellefonte. Had issue :
1 Ann, born April ISth, 1775, die^d January 26th, 1846,
married Hugh Boggs.
2 Waller, born August 17th, 1776, died August 27tjh,
1863. married Septeanber 3rd', 1793, Huldah Fontaine Lewis,
daughte'P of Go»l. Zachary Lewis and wife, Ann Overton
Terrill, married 1771.
3 Major James William, bom June 15(th, 1753, died
1823, married firsit 1773, Mary Ann Lewis; 'married second,
Suflier (Sophia). Served in the Revolutionary War as
Ensign 1st Con. Reg. of Virginia, February 16th, 1776, 2nd
Lieut, is! Con. Reg. of Virginia, August 10th, 1776, 2nd,
Ueut. 1st, Pa. Reg. January 1st, 1777. Issue by first wife:
1 Lewis, born 1775, married, Jiteid 1st, James, 2nd,
Lewis, 3rd, Polly.
2 William, "died at Parkersburg.
3 Mary, born 1780, died 1839, m'arried about 1805, John
De Frees of Rockridgo Qooinlty, had: Is^t, James, bom Nov-
ember ()th, 1807, died April 3rd, 1883, married Sophia Pot-
ter. 2nd, Joihn W., born November 4th, 1890, died March
10th, 1882, .married Eliza Ann Lindsay. 3rd, Isabella,
born 1810, died 1849, nmrried J<ohn Eskew. 4th, William
C, born 181:^. died 1855, married Kate Campbell.
John aii'd Ma-ry Holloday DeFrees lived in Rockridge
Oounty un«Hl 1812, when they moved 'to Ohio, Miami Coun-
ty about two miles south of Piqua. The parents of Mary
Ht)lloday DtFrt es cajne out to Ohio to see her, intending to
stay if Ihey liked it. They stayed one week, Itben the old
geritlemmn and his wife started' back to Virginia,
4t*h, Jemia, born Pay 29bh, niarried Isaac Graves of New-
berne, Noiillh arolina, later Orange County, Virginia. Had
Lewis, Kdward and Winifred.
5th, Williaim, barn Augusrt 7th, 1756, tiled June 29th,
1816, mamed July 31st, 1777, Mildred Jane Lewis,
William, junior, born 1778, Nancy, Sallie, Jemima and
James. Moved to Niobofas -County, Kentucky labout 1800.
William, junior, -manned Margaret Hughes and had ei^ht
sons, one William, born 1800. Married Patsy McKim,
youngest child, Mary, born 1844. (Hayden places his birtb
as 1765, August 7llh, deall'h April 25th, 1816, married July
31st, 1788, ten years later.)
6th, Winifred, born September 25tih, 1758. Baptized
Sunday, November 12th, 1758, in New Pamuky Ohai'rch.
169
Digitized by
Google
NOTABLE SOUTHERN FAMILIES
7th, Stephen, born September Stti, 1760, married' 1783,
Ann Hickman, born (inlj>epper County, 1754. Moved to
Caark Ck>unlt,y, Kewfcucky, in 1795. Had issue :
1st. Elliott, born in Kentucky, 1786, died 1869, nmmed
Riaohel Jiohnson. 2nd. Jemima, bom 1788, died 1812, mar-
ried Elizah Harris. 3rd, James, died uimiarried. ith, Joseph,
born 1791, mairied Sarah Woodfolk. 5fch, Lewis, born 1793.
Btih, Elizabetlh, born 1795, died 1833, married John Huston.
7th, Waller, born 1797, married 1843, Sarah A. Dimahoo,
widow of Joseph H. Whittington.
8th, Benjaauin, born June 8th, 1763, dWd in Kentucky,
abojirt 1825, married abowl 1784, Saralh Hampton. Had 1st,
Benjamin junior, born June 8th, 1786, died April 1st, 1859,
(moved to Missouri 1817, married August IBth, 1823, Eliza
Basye. 2nd, Mary (il., born 1785, died 1859, married Au-
gustms 0. Davis. 3rd, Virginia. 4th, Stephen.
9tih, Jioseph, j»imior, bom 1765, diied , married
Agnes Holloday, daughter of Benjamin and Susannah Hol-
loday. Son, Josi^ph III, born 1789, moved to Missouri in
1817 and married N©nc>' McCune.
Deed Jainuarj^ 26l!h, 1794, Joseph Holloday o»f Spts. Ooun-
ty and Agnes, his wife, to Robert Hart of sa«ne County, 129
aiores, part of tract lately belonging to Benjamin Holloday,
Ideoeased and alloted to sd. Aignes as her share of her
fathers land. Wit. Le^vis Holloday, Benjamin Holloday and
H. C. Boggs.
lOtih, Elizabeth, born 1767, died June 15t:h, 1785.
11th, Thomas, born 1769. No record.
Third Generation
4 Daniel Holloday 3rd, (son of John 2nd, senior,
Thomas istj
Dee^d, June 7th, 1743, Daniel Holloday and Agnes, his
wifi\ of St. George Parish, Spts. County, to Thomas Pulliam
of samie P^ris^h.
Only record of Daniel, Cozier, p. 6-149-162.
witness to a deed for 'his father in 1739. Orozier, ]). 149.
Third Generation
5 Henjamin Holloday 3rd:, (son of John 2nd, senior,
Thomas Ist.) Deed p. 176.
October 4ih, 1747, Benjamin HclkKiay and Susanna, his
wife, (first,) 'of Sp<ls. Cauniy, to Zachary Lewis of same,
295^ acres in said County, devised said Benjamin by last will
170
Digitized by
Google
HOLLIDAY
ami testament of his. father, John Holloday, deceased, mar-
ried 2nd, Mary, widow of Isasac Scott.
Will of Benjamin Holloday, p. 42. Berkley Parish. Spts.
Ooimty, died March 18*h, 1785. Witness, Jo€?eph Holloktay,
jundor, Stephto Hoiloday and William Hollod'ay. Ex. Son-
in-Law, Joseph Pulliani. Le^. my wdfe (Mary) grancfeon,
Benj^amin Holloday (son of Joseph) and daughter Susanna
HioJloday, diaugthter Agnes Holloday, married Joseph Hollo-
day, junior, Mantha Holloday, daughter Mary Holloday,
married Austin Sandridge, daughter Nancy Holloday, mar-
rk!d John Rawlings, daughter Elizaheth Holloday, married
Joseph Pulli'aim.
'^November 19th, 1778, Benjamin Holloday and Mary,
Ms wife,'' Sons, Joseph and! Benjamin, not mentioned in
will.
Ohildiren by firsil wife: Isi, Elizabeth, wife of Joseph
Pulliam. 2nd, Joseph, born 1747, died 17^3, married 1780,
Mrs. Fannde Johnson, had, Is-t, Benjamin, boro 1781. 2nd.
Fanny, born 1783. 3rd, Susanna. 4llih, Agnes, born 1750,
died' 1792, married Joseph Holliday, junior. 5th, Sarah,
born 1752, died 1800. mh, Mary, born 1756. 7tih, Martha,
born 1757. 8t!h, Benjamiin, born 1758.
By second wife. 9th, Mary, born 17(>0, died 1830, married
Ansitin Sandridge. 10th, Nancy, born 1762, died 1800,
married John Rawlings.
Fifth Generation
Children of Nancy Holloday and John Rawlings: Isf,
Thomas Rawlings, born April Isl, 1784. 2nd, Mary Raw-
lings, born April 13th, 1785. 3rd, Benjamin Holloday Raw-
lings, born Augufi't 29th, 1786. 4th, Levi Rawlings, born
FehPuaTy 29th, 1788. 5th, John Rawlings, born December
2ankf, 1789. 6th, Robert Rawlings, born June 2nd, 1794.
ath, Oliver Rawlings born 1796. (Lt. Gov of Mo.)
'*Levi Rawlings, I learn from old lette«rs and understand
from elsewhen:'e, was the only son of the children who re-
mained lin Virginia. John and Naincy Rawlings, the parents,
also weni io Kentucky <abmit 1800, later to Missouri, where
John died in 1820. John Rawlings mame<d for second wife,
Jane Bush Bmery (or Embree) in Kentucky mnd Gen. John
Aaflron Rawlings was la grajidson of thiismarriege".
Levi RaWlins married Eliza Hansbrough, May 29th, 1817,
and he died Oeltober 29tih, 1824. Their children were: 1st,
171
Digitized by
Google
NOTABLE SOUTHERN FAMILIES
Mary Ann, born March 9th, 1818, married William Parker.
2nd, Frances Virginiia, barn Novembeir 14th, 1819, married
Charles Hume 3rd, Nancy Holloday, born May 18th, 1822,
married George \Vaiigh/4th. Sarah Ellen, born June 7th,
1823, unmarried, died 19(35.
Among the Children of Charles Hume and Frances Vir-
ginia Rawlins was Frank Hume, born July 21st, 1843, who
married Emim'a Phillips N^nrris, and among ^their children is
Alice, wile of Rev. Thomas Worthinglon Cooke.
Rev. Thomas W. Co^ike an'd Mrs. Alice Hume Coake
havp, ls<t, Alice, 2nd, Margaret, 3rd, Thomas, junior.
Third Generation
6 Elizabeth 3rd', (daughter of John 2nd, senior,
Thomas 1st.) Married PaKterson PulMam. He died prior
to April 6th, 1758, las on that date John Holloday and
Joseph Hawkins adt as Adm. for Patterson Pulliam, de-
ceased, (p. 60).
Stm, Joseph, mentioned in deeds. Son Paltlerson appears
in deeds of 1760-61, etc., after tlhe falther's death.
Third Generation
7 Winifred, 3rd, daughter of John 2nd, senior, Thom-
as 1st. W'ife of Thonvas Pulliam. Will of Thomas Pulliam,
p. 17.
''St. George Parish, died April 17th, 1758, proved Juno
6th, 1758. Witness Joseph Holloday and Benjamin Holo-
day. Kx. sons, James and Thomas Pulliaffn. Leg. sons,
Jaonei^, Thomas an'd Benjamin, daughrtlers, Winifred, Sus-
anna, Elizabeth, Agnes, Mary, Anna, wife of David Sand-
ridge, Sarah, wife of Christopher Dickdn".
Third Generation
8 Saraih 3rd, (daugtiter of John 2nd, senior, Thomas
Is^.) Wife of Jamies Rawlings.
Will, p. 41.
Jaimes Bawlings, died Noveauber 15tlh, 1781. Ex. Bond
dated April 15th, 1785. Witness, Lewis Hollod'ay, Raw-
lings Pulliam and Sarah Pulliam. Ex. wife, Sarah Raw-
lings. Sons, Thomas, Joseph, James and John. Daughters,
Mary Gaines, Agnes Gaines and Rebecca.
9 Susanna 3rd, daughter of John 2nd', senior, Thomas
1st.) Unmarried in 1742. No record.
172
Digitized by
Google
HOLLIDAY
Holliday, James, Ensign in Captain StiubblefieM''s Company.
Spls. Milirtia.
From Crozier's Spts. Gourtty Records, p. 523.
Holloday, Jamies. Oap'tmn John F. (Mercer's Company
No. 1, as it*^^lood Febmary 1st,. 1778.
^ From SafTeH's ^'Soldiers in the Revolution from Vir-
giniia," p. 292.
Holloday, James, pr. W. D. 72, 1: W. D. 78, 1: W.
D. 293, 1 : W. D. 307, 4. (Whidh means "Photographs of
payrolls of Virginia Contineaital Line, referred -to by folder.
There are 353 folders.)
From ''Virginia Soldiers in the Revolution" Supplement,
p. 152.
Holloday, James, pr. Pen^n. Conltinental Line. Drew pen-
sion in 1833, in Ohio Gooiinlty, Virginia.
From Virginia pension rolls, U. S. War Dept. Pension
Rolls, 1835. Vol. 2, p. 180.
Hollo«dav, Joseph (Va.) Ensign 6t}i, Virginia, 16th, Feb-
»tal Army (Page 179.) Order book 129-1832, Spts. County,
Virginia, CoiuH ChJapter lea-ding, ''Revolutionary Prisoners".
Frcvm Oozier's Spts. County Records, p. 534.
Holloday, Joseph (Va.) Ensign 6th Virginia, 16th, Feb.
ruarj' 1776. 2nld, Lieut. 11th, Sepltember 1776, ls»t, Lieut.'
March 1777, registered 23rd July 1777, Captain Virginia
Militia, 1780-1781.
From Heitman's "Oflicers of Ihe Revokition" p. 296.
• Hollod'ay, Joseph, Ensign, February 16t'h, 1776.
From SlafTeir.s ''Soldiers in the Revolution" from Vir-
ginia, p. 289.
Holloday, Josejjih, (Lieut.) H. D. 1835-6. (Which means
Ho-use or delegates.)
Holloid'ay, Joseph, War 4,43,207 (Which means) "A Col-
lection cf 'ms. voliwmes bearing on the miMrtarj" establish-
m-ent of the state during and' afteT" the Revolution".
From "Revolutionary Soldiers of Virginia" [>. 222.
Digitized by
Google
Digitized by
Google
HOLLINGSWORTH
Jaiiies Holliiigsworlh caiiw* from Winchester, Virginia,
about 1786, ajid serttled in the Meeting Street section 'of
Edgofield Oountj-, South Oarolina. He left' one brother in
Virginia, anot^he-r wenrt to North Carolina, a thirdi went to
Ohio, a foui^t'h to Kentucky and one to Miss^issippi.
JaffTies Hollingsworth was born , died September
13, 1821, in Edgefield County.
Agnes Evans (wife) born , died in 1812.
; Children
(1) John, born in Virginia 1773, died in Florida in
1841.
(2) Alexandeo*, born in 1775. Two sons, James and
Alexander.
(3^ James, born 1778. One son, James.
(4) Ijucy, born in 1780, married Miller, daugh-
ter Ginsey Millor.
(5) Saraii, born 1782, married Janies Garson.
(t)) Man', born 177G, married in 1808, Jaimes Harrison
(born June 6, 1781, died 18 — , a son of James and Susannah
Harrison of Mrginia.
(7) Daughter (name illegible in the will, but seems to
be Lotty or Le^tty, married Enoch Walton. Son, Enoch
Walton.
John the eldt»sit^ child, married Beersheba Oliphant, third
daug'hter of John and Nancy (Eraser) Olipnant (born
178H). T^eir children were:
(1) William F. Hollingsworth. born 1809, died* October
23, 1831.
(2) John Haiupton H oil ings worth, born February 15,
1811, died July 31, 1887.
(3 P^liza A. Hollingsworth, horn September 3, 1813,
died Sepleniber 19, 1903.
175
Digitized by VjOOQIC
NOTABLE SOUTHERN FAMILIES
(4) Emily D. Hollingsworth, born May 20, 1816, died
June 26, 1900.
(5 biomede F. H-ollingsworhh, born Jnn-e 25, 1819, died
February 25, 1857.
(6) Mfitnsfleld E. Hallingsworth, born August 2, 1821.
died October 23, 1853.
William, the eldest son, married but left no heirs.
John Hampton Hollingis\\x)rth (son of J-olin H. and Beer-
s!heba Oliphant) was married twice.
(1) Elizabeth Richardson, on November 15, 1853. (2)
Lucinda Branson, born 1838; married Decefmber 23, 185S;
died M!ay 16, 1883.
Issue — By First Wife
(1) Elizabeth Richai^on Hollingsworth was bom
Augjust 24, 1855; married January 15, 1880 to William
Havne Folk; issue: one daughter, Julia Folk, born Septem-
ber 8, 1895. Col. Folk died May 16, 1898.
By Second Wife
(1) Diomede, born 1895; died 1862.
(2) Lueretia Helen, born 1861 ; died 1865.
(3) John Ha^mpton, born 1864; died 1865.
(4) Daniel Bnmson, born July 14, 1868 (still livinp"^.
Daniel Brunson Hollings\^'or»Ih married October 10, 1880,
Sallie Strothers, born April 25, 1871; their children are:
(1) John Haanpton, born April 24. 1892 (unmarried).
(2) Anna Baill Strother, born February 24, 1894, mar-
ried Wad. D. Allen, June 1915, and has one soUj ffordo,
junior, Mardh 7, 1916.
(3) Elizabeth Fo'lk, bom February 23, 1896, married
William S. Anderson and 'has one daughter, Elizabeth, born
November 7, 1920.
(4) Diomede Franklyn, born July 12, 1898 (unmar-
ried).
(5) William Strother, born Febraary 18, 1900 (un-
married) .
Eliza Ann Hollingsworth, -third child of John Hoiliiiirs-
worth and his wife, Beersheba Oliphant, married Alexander
Walker, December 15, 1831, and had six dhildren, viz:
(1) Virginia, married Mr. Harmon.
(2) Caroline, married (1) Mr. Freeman, (2) Mr. Wit-
liaims and has children by both marriages.
(3) John H. (died without issue).
(4 Alexander Spann, died* in Louisiana but left daugh-
ters.
(5) Milton Scott (died without issue).
176
Digitized by VjOOQIC
HOLLINOSWORTH
(()) Emma K., died umnarried.
(7) H(*rbert W., living but 'unaiiarried'. •
Emily D. Hollinpsworfch. >;*he fmirth child of John Hol-
linfps^vorfh and wife, Beersih^ba Oliphant, mardod Tzna G.
Talhrl and had children: (1) Gorne'lia, (2) John, (3) Ezra.
Ezni unly had children. They live now in Edgefield County.
Diomedie Franklin, fifth child of John Hollingsworth and
his wife, married Eliza Griffin and had one son who died in
dhildhood.
Mansfield Emilius, sixth child of John Hodlingswortb
and his wife, Beersheba Oliphanl, married Margaret Gomil-
lian, May 10, 1843; their children :
(1) Maiigaret Cornelia, born August 26, 1846, died
March 13, 1906. She was twice married, firs* tOjRobert D.
Bnmson (born December H, 1841; died October 1, 1870);
second to Artemas Lowe Brunson (born Jammry 28, 1846
and lei^! \Viro children by each piarriag*^.
(1) Susan Brunson, born February 2, 1869; married J.
Walter Hill (no issue).
(2) Oornelia, born June 6, 1870; married Wade S.
Oothran and hiasi a son, James S. Cothran, born October 20,
1895 (unmarried), and a daughter, Margaret Cornelia, bom
December 25, 19(X), married March 15, 1921 to Julian D.
Holstein, junior.
(3) Oleora, bom January 17, 1881, married Wallace 0.
Tompkins. November 25, 1908; has no children.
(4) Artemas Lowe, junior, born October 28, 1886; mar-
ried Virginia L. Thomason, August 9, 1917. They have two
children, AKemas Lowe (third) and Idalia Walker Bnmson.
(2) Mansfield K. Hollingsworth, junior, second child of
Majisfield and Margaret (Gomillian) HoMingswonth, mar-
ried Jane Holcomb and has eighi children: (I do not know
their ages). They aire: Jane (married Man ton McOutchecm
and has tuur daughters) ; Thomas Thompson (married but
no children) ; Margaret (married William Addy; Septima
(pD^rried Roy Gillerland) ; William Grover Mansfield,
junior, and Laurence are unmarried; Cornelia married Mr.
Creech.
Digitized by
Google
Digitized by
Google
HOUSTON
The Houston who is the most farn'ous in American an-
nals is General Sam Houston who achdeved the distinction
of being Governor of awo stales, Tennessee and Texas, and
President of Texas when that state was aa independent
republic. It is believed that all the Houstjons of the South-
em StJates are more or less oonneieted witti the family
wMch produoed Gtovemor Sam Housfton.
The family is of Scotch-Msh origin, like so many of
those which have ben written of in this series.
In 1835 John Houston emigrated from the North of
Ireland to Amerioa sefttling first in Pennsylvania and from
thence removed to Virginia. He was accompaiiind by his
motther (who is recorded as being a widow, Mrs. John
Houston, sihowing that John Houston's father was also
John Houston) and his wife who was befor.^ her marriage,
Margaret Qunningham. One child of John Hoiislon and his
wife Margaret Ounningham Houston, James Honsl(»n, was
left in Ireland' and died there. They bad six other children
all of whom married. Their descendants ai*e in 1he onlire
Southern ^teoritory.
The widow Houston who accompanied' her son John
Houston to America in 1735 was born about 1650. She
lived <to be 97 and died in Rockbridge County, Vi'rginia, and
was buried noH far distant from thepresent New Provi-
dence GhuTich cemetery, Rockbrid^ County, Virginia.
In the name of the father of the emigrant John Houston,
there appears to be divergence of opinion. On page 426,
*'Ninth Scofch-Iris'h Congress'', the name is given as
Samwel Houston, with the following additional data re-
garding his ancestry :
*'Hugh Huston came from Wighanshire, Scotland, to
Ireland: there he married Sarah Houston of County of
Antrim (Ireland) family of Houstons: their son Samuel
married Margaret McClung and their son, John,c ame lo
America early in the Eighteenth Century: remained for a
fime in Pennsylvania, then prior to 1750, removed to the
'Borden Gran*', Virginia".
179
Digitized by VjOOQIC
NOTABLE SOUTHERN PAMIUES
The above recoil is takea from ifche family chart givea
by Archibald Wood Houston, Toledo, Ohio, 1895, a descend-
ant fr<oim Joihn Housfon <he emigrant, through his fourth
child, Jo»hn Houston who mairied' Sarialh Todid. Mr. Houston
is also a -descendant of the Rev. James Wa'ddell — the Blind
Preacher of Augusta Ck>unty, Virginia, and it would appear-
that he would have at his commland the best aiuthority.
John Houston, the emigrant, from wlhom the lines giveix
in this article diverge, was born in Ireland in 1689-90. He
diedi in Rockbridge County, Virginia, in 1754 and is buried
Bhere beside ihis wife and moither.
As the family record states that they remained in Penn-
sylvania imlil their three eldest childtren were married, they
moist 'have left Pennsylvania for Virginia no»t earier than
1744 when their second daoighter and third child. Ester,,
would have been about twenty years old. The ithree child-
ren referred to are: Robert (who married Margaret David-
son), Isabella (who married a Henderson) and Esther (who
married Joihn Montgomery).
Seven Children of the Emigrant John Houston
The children of John Ho«ustoh and Margaret Gunning-
ham Houston were :
I Robert Houston.
II Isabella Houston.
III Esther Houston.
IV John Houston, Third..
V SamueJ Houston.
VI Matthew Housilon.
VII James Houston.
I. ROBERT HOUSTON
Robert HouslHDn, son of John Houston ithe emigrant and
'his wife Margareit Ounninghaon Hooiston, who was bom
about 1720 in Ireland, married Marigaret Davidson, daughter
of Samuel and Ann Dunlap Davidson. The children of
Robert Houston and 'his wife were:
(1) John Houfillon.
(2) Samuel Hous^ton.
(3) Bettie Houston.
(4) Margareit Houston.
(5) Esther Houston.
(6) Mary Houston.
Ghalkley's ''•caironicles of Augusta County, Virginia,'*^
gives the will oif a Robert Houston dated September 11^
1760, in Which lihe wife's name appears as Mary and his.
180
Digitized by
Google
HOUSTON
children as follau's: Son John (infant) 95 acres on
Collier Creek: son, Jam^ (infant) 200 acres adjoining
place testato-r lives on: son, Samuel (infartt) plantation''
'tesrtiator lives on, 307 acres : daaighter, Edizabeth— 5 shillings,
aflready provi-ded for: daughters Ann, E&ther, Margaret,
Mary. Wife Mary, son John and broHher Saanuel Hlisiton,
Executors. Witnesses: Daniel Lyle, Moses Trimble, Sam'l
McCroskey. Will proved 19 May 1761 by Lyle and Trimble.
Executors qualify with Daniel Lyle, John Huston as sur-
eties..
Ailso Ohalkely gives the will of Robert I>avidson, dated
January 10, 1751, in whidh mention is made of wife, Ann,
son Jolhn and daughter Mary Housfton.
While the Houston Genealogj^ by Rev. S. R. Houston
gives ithe name of Roberit Horuston's wife as Margaret David-
son, <Jaughter of Samuel Davidson and Ann Dimlap, the
records above indicate tha't her name was Miary Davidson
and that she was a dauigWter of Robert and not Samuel
Davidson.
Of the foregoing (1) Jolhn Houston, son of Robert
Houston and his wife married March 16, 17(19 Ann Logan.
They lived and died in Colliei<town. Note the land will
John in Robert Houston's will above was on Oollier Orw^k.
(2) Samuel Houston, son of Robert Houston and Mar-
gareH Davidson Housion married Elizjabeth Paxton. They
had nine children: Piaxton Houston, Robeirt Houston, James
Houston, John Housiton, Samuel Housit^on (General), Wil-
liam Houston, Is«l>ell Housiton, Mar>' Houston and Elizabeth
Houston.
Of the eight brotttiers and sisters of tthe faonous General
Samuel Houston: Paxton Houston, died young; Robert
Mouslton died uranamed"; James Houston settled in Nash-
ville and left a family; John Houston, called M^jor John
Hj^usrton lived in Memphis and left a fatmi'ly; William
Housiton married Miss Ball, of Kerituoky, and had three
children, a daughter Mary Houston and t^'o sons, Eugene
Houston and WiHiams Houston, Second; Istlt>ella Houston
died young; Mary Houston married twice, firsft Colonel
Matthew Wallace and second his kinsman General William
Wailace, leaving one son by the flrslt marriage; Eliza Hous-
ton maTined Moore and Hved' in Texas.
Samuel Houston becaime fthe most famvous member of
She family and one of the faomous men of American. In 1793
at the time of his birth, ihe family was residing in Rock-
bridSge Couttty, Virginia. The father of the sturdy family
181
Digitized by VjOOQIC
NOTABLE SOUTHERN FAMIUES
of liim^ died when the little Sam was thiilteen — »that is in
1800. There were six sons and three daughters. The
widow Elizabeth Paxlon Houstion and her group of childl^n
undeTtook the arduous journey from Virginia to what is
now Tennessee.
Various hiatoriians have speoukted her reasons for
Wiis move which !had' resoilte of siuch importance to her
famous son of Samuel and to the tw?o greaA Statues which
daim him as 'hero and almost •pat'non saint.
Hiowever a't that time a wave of emigralfion to the new
cooinitrj^ had seft in and already many of thie widow's kins-
people were in the new couniliry and doubtless urging her
io follow. There were better opportunities also apparently
in Ihe '*new country" for heir sons and daughters. Her
'Misbandrs kinsman, Houston had married Alice
Armstrong and the Armstrongs and ihsk branch of (he
Ho'ustons were already in Tennessee. Her husband's
uncle, Matthew Houston, ih«ad married Martha Lyle and
was already a resident of Tennessee. Her husband's aunt,
EsKher Houston had married John Momtgomerl and they
Wi'^H' in Tennessee. Also ElizabdtJi Paxton Houston's
own kinsman, Joseph Paxton had married into the Lyle
family and was living in Tennessee.
Arriving in Tennessee the nine ohildlren are said to have
developed amazingly. Sam picked up an intimate acquaint-
ance with the Indians and very soon practically left the
ways of civilization for the Indian camps. He learned their
language and (o the end of his life conversed fluently with
meTiibers of many tWbes. He wore their dress and followed
thei'r customs. His influence and authority among them
continued until his death.
His fame and political career are not the subject of this
article. Ill is enough to say he was elected Governor of
Tennessee, resigned the office at the height of his popu-
lai*ily and power, and went to Texas, fought to make it free
became its flTsl President in the days of the Republic and
laltier its Governor when Texas entered' the Union.
In 1829 while he was Grovemor of Tennessee he married
Eliza Allen of an old and aris»tocratic family. The mairriage
was most lunhappy and as a result of it Governor Houston
•resigned his exalted ofTice and went to Texas where he
became idientifiedl with ithat state. May 9, 1840 he married
for his second wife Margareit MofTeitt Lea in Marion,,
Alabama, Eliza Allen Houston having secured a divorce by
authority of the Tennessee legislature.
182
Digitized by VjOOQIC
HOUSTON
Geon^ral Sam Houston, by his second marriage had eight
children :
(1) Samuel Hoiuston, Third.
(2) N'annie E. Houston.
(3) Margaret Lea Houston, daughter of General Sam
(4) Mary W. Housiton.
(5 Nettie Power Housiilon.
(6) Andlr(»w Jackson Housiton.
(7) Temple Hooiston.
(8) William Roger Houston.
Of the foregoing:
(1) Saniaiel Houston, Third, eldest son of General Sam
Houston and Ma'rgnret Moffett Lea Houston, married
Anderson end had 4'WO children: Maggie Belle Houston
and Henry Howard Hous»ton.
(2) Nannie E. HousHon, daughter of General Sam
Houston and Margaret Moffett Lea Houston, married J. C. S.
Morrow and had six children: Maggie Morrow, Mary •
Morrow, Jennie Morrow, Preston Morrow, Temple Morrow
and Klizab(*th Morrow.
(3) Margaret Lea Houston, adughter of General Sam
Housto'u and Mairgare t Moffet* Lea Houston, married
Weston L. Williams and had five cfhildren: Housiton Wil-
liams, Madgp Williams, Frank'Iin W. Williams, James
Royston Williams and Marian L. Williams.
(4) Mary W. Houston, daughter of General Sam Hous-
ton and Margaret Moffett I^n Housfton, married
Morrow and had three children: John H. Marrow, Maud
Morrow and Jesse Morrow.
(5) Nettie Power Housiton, d^ugQit<T of General Sam
Houstion and Margaret Moffertit Lea Houston, (married W.
L. Bringhurst and had two children: Sam Housiton Bring-
hurst and Nettie Bringhnrst
(6) Andrew Jackson Houston, son of General Sam
HoustDu and Margaret Moffeliti Lea Houston, married twice,
first Carrie Parnell and second Bettie Goode an«d had three
children: Ariadne Houston, Marguerite Houston aixd
Josephine Housiton.
(7) Temple Houston, son of General Sam Houston and
Margaret Moffett Lea HousJlon, married' Laura Gross and had
three children, among them being Temple Houston, Second,
and Samuel Houston, Fourth.
(8) William Rogers Hoaiston, son of General Sam
Housiton and Margaret Moffett Lea Houston, never married.
Five of the eig*ht children of General Houstlon survive
183
Digitized by VjOOQIC
NOTABLE SOUTHERN FAMILIES
(1921), and they are Mrs. Nannie E. Hiouston Morrow, Mr».
Mary W. Hou&ton Marrow, Mrs. Nettie Houston Bringhurst,
Colond Andlrew Jackson Houston and William Rogers
Houston.
(3) Befttie Houston, third child' oif Robent and Margare<t
Davidson Houston, married John McOlung, and had six
children: John McGJung, Second, Jane McGlnng, Saimuel
McCJung, Margaret McGlung, Jaimes McGlung and Mary
McCInng.
(4) Margaret Houston, fVjurth child of Robert Houston
and Margaret DavidfeOn Houston, married James Hopkins
and had two children : John Hopkins and Jaimes Hopkins,
Secoftd.
(5) Esther Housilon, samelimes called Nannie, fifth
child of Robert Hooiston and Margarert Davidson Houston
married James McKee and had four childt^n, Nancy McKee,
Robert McKee, John McKee and William MpKee.
(6) Mary Houston, siixth child of Robert Houston and
Margaret Davidson Housiton, married John Lechter and had
nine children: John Letcher, Second; Hannah Letcher,
Sallie Lelcfher, Ann Leitcher, William Houston Letdher, Isaac
Letlcher, Marj^ (Polly) Letcher, James Letcher and Giles
Letcher.
II ISABELLA HOUSTON
Isabella Houston, d^nglhter of the emigirant John
Hou&ton and his wife Margaret Cunningham Hlonston was
born aboutt 1722. Accounts conflict as to her marriage, but
it is believed that she mairried first John or George Hender-
son, and married second William Gillespie and that her
children were :
(2
(3
(4
(5
(6
(7
(8
(9
10
William Henderson.
Jane Henderson.
Snsan Hendeo'son.
Ann Gillespie.
PoUie GiMespie.
Betsy Gillespie.
Jaimes Gillespie.
John Gillespie.
Robert Gillespie.
Nancy Gillespie.
III. ESTHER HOUSTON
Estiher Hooisiton, daughter of John Houston the emigrant
and liis wife Marga'ret Ounninghiam Hooiston was born
184
Digitized by
Google
HOUSTON
about 1724. She msarried John Montgomery and settled in
Auigaista Ooainty, Virginia. She 'had twelve dhildren :
1 Joihn Montgomerj^ Second.
2 Mollie Montgomery.
3 Ann Montgoanery.
4 ^ James Monllgomery.
5 Dorcas MontgOTner>\
f) Jane Montgomery.
7 Robert Montgomery.
8 Eflrtiher Montgomery.
Alexander M'ontgomery.
10 Isabella Montgomery.
11
12
Of the foregoing Dorcas married John Lowry and settled
in Rockbridige iGounty, Virginia. She had five children, Joihn
MontgHMiiery Lowry, David Lowry, Robert Edmonson
Lowry, Janies. Lowry and Wi'Hiam Lowry. RoJbert Edmond-
son Low?ry married Elizabeth Moore and settled in Wash-
ington County, Virginia, They h^ad tsix chlMren: William
Moore LowTy, John Montgomery Lowry, Jannes Moore
Lowry, Dorcas Lowry, Samuel Moore Lowry and Elizabeth
MIoore Lowr}\ William Moore Lowry setltled' in Greeneville,
East Tennessee and saibsequently moved to Atlanta, Geor-
gia. He married Julia Easton, a descendan't of the Deader-
ick family. See fliat family in Notable Southern Families •
Vcflume I. Thf^y bad nine chiidten. (1) John Easton Lowry,
(2) Riobenl Jaaiies' Lowry, (who married Emma Celestia
Marklham), (3) Fannie Talbot Lowry (who married
Porter and h£is two children, Lowry Porter who
married Annie May Grass and has Margaret Grass, and
Julia Low-ry Potter 'who married E. Baltes BJock) (6) Mary
Hazpltine LowTy, (7) Julia Margaret Lowry, (8) Alice May
Lo^ry, and (9)' Lelia Prentice Lowr}^
IV. JGHN HOUSTON, THE THIRD
John Houston 'tbe fourKh child of John Houston the emi-
grant, was born in Ireland in 1726. He married Sarah
Todd. They had nine cbildren :
(i) James Ho^iston.
(2) John Houston, Fourth.
(3) Samiuel Houston (Rev.)
(4) WiHiam Houston.
(5) Robert Hoiisiton.
(6) Matthew Houston.
^7) Alice Houaiton.
185
Digitized by VjOOQIC
NOTABLE SOUTHERN FAMILIES
(8) Margaret Hooiston.
(9) Esther Houston.
The descendants of this John Houston, fourth child of
John Houston, (tihe emigrant, have been identified very
closely with Tennessee history since the days of the ill-
fated stiate of Franklin whose cons«litiution Rev. Samuel
Houston, third son of above John, assisted in f raoning. Rev.
Samuel Rutherford, son of Rev. Samluel Housiton, was the
compiler of "Biographical Accounts of the Houston Family
accompanied by a Genealogical Taible", published in Cincin-
nati 1882.
Three daughters of John Houston and Sarah Todd
married in Tennessee and their descendanlts have played a
prominent part in t)he church history of the of ttie state.
Alice Houston, sevenith child of Jolin and Sarah (Todd)
Houston married William Stephenson of JonestKxro, Ten-
oessee. Their third child, Elizabeth Stephenson, married
her first cousin, John McEvven, and throu^gh ithe marriage
of itheir fifth child, Elizabeth McEwen who married William
T. Mason, is descended the Mason family of Memphis, Ten-
nesse. 'Qarrington Mason, second son of William T. Mason
and Elizabeth (McEwen) Mason, married Maria Boddie and
to them were bom seven c^hi'ldren: Elleston, Garrington,
Lunsford Yandell, Yandell, Mari'a B., Alfred D., and Eliza-
beth McEwen Mason. Lunsford Y. Mason, third child
above, married Sarah Sale: their elder son, Lunsford Y.
Mason, junior, graduated from Annapolis and is now in
ihe U. S. Navy. They have another son also: William
Cornelius Mason. Maria B. Mason above, married
Stanford' of U. S. Navy and has two children: Eliza Stan-
ford Sackett and Garrington Stanford. Alfred D. Mason,
sixth child above, married Mary E. Walker and has two
children: Alfred D. Miason, jtmior, and Garringlton Mason.
Eliaabeth McEwen Majson lasl child of Garrington Mason
-and Maria (Boddie) Mason married Dr. Henry Uoyd and
has three children: Henry Lloyd, junior, Garrington Lloyd
and Elizabeth Lloyd.
Margareit Houston, eighth child of John Houston «uid
Sarah Todd married Alexander McEwen who died
at Jonesboro, Tennessee, and at advanced age she married
Rev. Samuel Doak senior, the venerated Foundter of Higher
Eduofiution in the State of Tennessee. Margart Houston by
he^r first marriage had five child'ren : John McEwen, Eb-
enezer McEwen, Alexander McEwen, Robert Houston Mc-
Ewen and Sarah McEwen. Robert Houston McEwen,
186
Digitized by VjOOQIC
HOUSTON
lo-urth child, married Henrietta Kennedy and became a
pillar in itie Presbyterian Glmrch in Nlas'hville, Tennessee.
Throoigh the marriage of their fifth child, to Judge John T.
Jones of Hfelena. ArlSmsas, was descendea thet two eminent
physicians of Memphis, Dr. Kennedy and lir. Heber Jones,
and 'their brothers, Thomas Jones, late of Memphis, ajid
Paul Jones, Attorney of New York City.
V. SAMUEL HOUSTON
SamiueJ Houston, fifth child of John Houston the emi-
grant and his wife Margaret 'Cunningham Houston, was
born in Ireland aJ)out 1728 and came to America with his
parents in 1735. He died 1797 «rt the age of sixty-nine years
in Blount or Knox County, Tennessee. He married Eliza-
beth McGrosky, daugliler of John McGrosky and his wife
Elizabeth of Augusta County, Virginia. Their children were:
(1) John Houston.
(2) Jamets Houston.
(3) Robert Houston.
(4) Margaret Houston.
(5) William Houston.
(6) Mathew Houston.
(7) Elizabeth Houston (by second ? wife).
Robert Houston, third son of Samuel Houston and his
wife, Elizabeth (McCrosky) Houston, was born in Rock-
bridge Oouny, Virginia, 1760. About the year 1792 Robert
Houston removed from Washington County, Virginia, to
Tennessee where he lived till Ms death in 1835. His farm
was about eightt miles South-east of Knoxville, on 'the south
side of the French Broad River. At about the same time
another Robert Houston came to Knox County from Abbe-
ville District, So-uth Oarolina, and singularly enough the
deaiih of *he latter Robert Houston occurred' April 2, 1834 —
thus but a few months difference in the decease of the two.
iThe above facts Ih'ave le»d to a considefrable confusion by
historians as to the county offices held by eiadh. It is cer-
tain that Robert of Abbeville was the Territorial Secretary
and Ithat he for a time was SherilT of Knox County, but
it seems likely that Robert Houston of Rockbridge Count v,
Virginia, also held office of Sheriff of Knox and 1810-1814
that of Clerk of the Circuit Court of Blount OounHy.
Robert Houston of Rockbridge Coun'ty, Virginia, son of
Samuel Houston and wife, Elizabeth McOroisky Houston,
married twice : first Blizab^h Lochart (or Lochard) grand-
daughter of Col. David Campbell who established C^mp-
187
Digitized by VjOOQIC
NOTABLE SOUTHERN FAMIUES
bells s-tafion near Knoxville in pioneer days; second wife
was Hartha Blackboim, daaiigliter of LieuH. Witliam Black-
bum wh^o fdl at the Battle of King's Mountain, October
1780, and whose widow Elizabeth (Bla)ck) Blackburn, with
her brother Joseph Black and John Blackburn administered
upon her deceased husband's estate, 1780-1796, as the
records of Washingjton Oounty, Virginia, sliow. I«t is said
that Martha Blackburn was a niece of the distinguished
Prpsbyterian Divine, Rev. Gideon Blackburn; since a com-
plete list of \}he children of Robet^t Blackburn, father of
Rev. Gideon Blackburn, has not t>een found Ihds statement
can not be veirified fully. Elizabeth Lochard and Martha
Blackburn were devoted- friends before the death of the
first. Elizabeth (Lochard) Hous^ton) died young, leaving
but four small children to survive her — 'four having died
previoiiisly.
The c'hild^en of Robert Houston and Ihis first wife,
Elizabeth Lochard. Houston, were as follows:
1 Elizabetih Hoaits-ton.
2 William L. Houston.
3 Samuel Hooiston.
4 Jaimes Houston.
5 Mahhew Houston.
() John Houston.
7. Robea^t Houston.
8 Mary Houston.
But three of the foregoing left descendants : William L.
Hmislon married Rebecca Woodward and to them were
born the following children: Robert, Cicero and Richard.
Matftiow H'ousfton (No. 5) above married Jane McCrosky a
thiird cousin, and the family removed to Iowa. Robert
Houston, No. 7 above, married Dorthea Cresswell: heir
eld<\st diaughter imarritxl Rob.^rt Pickens of Blount County
where their desoendanls live.
Robert Blackburn and Martha Blackburn, his second
wife were married October 17, 1809. To them were borii
five children, as follows:
George Blackburn Houston.
10 Joseph Erasmus Houston.
11 Lochard E. Houston.
12 Samiuel Moore Houston.
13 EKza'betlh L. Hou&ton.
9 Of the foregoing children, George Blackburn Hous-
ton married Lamanda Monday : their descendants live near
Cottonwood, Kansas.
188
Digitized by VjOOQIQ
HOUSTON
10 Joseph E. Houston, No, 10 above, cam^ in 1834 to
Madisonville, Tennessee, where during his long and ovent-
. ful life he held nearly everj' public office in *he County.
April 2, 1834, he mappierf Eliza McDonald CSark Haire,
daughter of Monroe County's second Sheriff, James
A. Haire and his wife, Mary Brown McDonald Haire,
of York District, Sout'h Carolina. To Joseph E. Hous-ton and
his wife, Eliza Mc. C. Hair© Houston were bom:
1 Captain Robt. E. Houston.
2 Mary Caroline Houston.
3 Martha Eliza Houston.
4 James Haire Houston.
5 Josephine EHiot Houston.
(> Lizzie Alice Houston.
7 Blanche MoDona'ld Houston.
Of tihe foregoing^ Oapt. Robert Houston, G. S. A on the
staff of Gen. J. G. \augnn, married Miss Mary Weaver of
Columbus, Mississippi But one child survived him : J. E.
Houston of Aberdeen, Mississippi, who married first, Miss
Willie Cox. Shortly afterwards ^he died leaving one daugh-
ter who is now Mrs. Lawrence Tucker of Holly Springs,
Mississippi. J. E. Houston married second, Fannie G.
Carlisle: they have the following ohildiren: Fannie May,
Joseph E., Blanchard Weaver Houston, Birl G. Houston,
Mary Weaver Houston. Captain Robt. E. Houston had no
children by his second wife, Mrs. Helia Stoddard.
Mary G. Houston, second daughter of Joseph E. Houston
and Ms wife Eliza Mc. C. Haire Houston, marrit^ Samuel
Ma41ock Browder and to them were born three daughters:
(a) Blanche McKinney Browder who married Ghas. Freder-
ick Lal!imore and has the following children: Mar>' Ella
Lattimore who married Kiug Walker and has Two children,
King Benson Walker and Frances Lattimore Walker.
Margaret Houston Browder, who married' Mr. HeiTington
and has three c^hildren : Ghas. A. Helllngton, Nancy Heinng-
ton, Blanche B. Helllington. SamueJ Browder Lattimore
who married Ruth Gail McPeek: and las.My, Ghas Frederick
Latttmore, junior, (b) Elizabeth Alice Browder, second
daughter of Samuel and Mary C. (Houston) Browder,
married' David Erskin Lowry and' t'hey have three children :
Frank H., Mary Emeline, and Addie Blanc^h LowTy. (c)
Ellen Browdier, thiTd daughter, married Ulysses Milligan
and has two children: Elizabeth and Ulysses, junior.
11 Judge Lockhart .E. Houston, third son of Robert
Houston by his second wife, Martha Blackburn, removed
189
Digitized by VjOOQIC
NOTABLE SOUTHERN FAMILIES
when a young man to Aberdeen, Mississippi, where h^
pursued' his beloved profession — the Law, and where he
served as Circuit Judge, later helping to frame the Constitu-
tion of that state after the War Between :the States. He maN
ried Miss Sue MaJury Parris'h. See "Early Settle»rs of North-
ern AJabama" by Saunders. To Judge Houston and his
wife, Sue Maury Parrish, were bom the following:
1 Mamie Houston.
2 Robert P. Houston.
3 Lizzie Houston.
4 Loch'd Houston.
5 David Winston Houston.
6 Joseph. S. Houston.
7 A daughter who died' young.
8 Sue Maury Houston.
1 Mamie Hoiualton, above, married Benjamin Gillespie
of Aberdeen, Mississippi : their only <Jaaighter, Jessie mar-
ried first, Howard Ward of Mem>phis, and later Acker
Rogers of Aberdeen, Mississippi.
2 Robert Parrish Houston married a Miss Honey: four
children were born to them: Robert P. Houston, junior;
Newton Houston died unmarried; D. Winston Houston,
jainfior, Who married Beatrice Jenkins. They have two
children : Winston Houston, junior, and a daughter, .
The fourth ohild of Robert. Parrish Houston and his wife,
Miss Honey, is Mar>' Sue Houston who married r
Franklin of Aberdeen, Mississippi.
3 Lizzie Houston married Firank Johnson of Madison-
ville, Tennessee, and Ihey have two children: Elizabeth
Johnson and Ijocke Johnson, now a student at Vanderbilt
University.
4 Dr. Lodh'd Houston died unmarried.
5 David Winston Houston, fifth child of Judge Looh'd
Houston is a distinguished lawyer in Mississippi and is
being urged for ihe nomination of Grovernor of that stale.
He married' Pinkie Sykes of Aberdeen, Mississippi, and they
have only one daughter, India Sykes Houston, who was
recently married to Hinam Casse*dy Holden, son of Judge
Holdon of Jackson, Mississippi.
6 Joseph S. Houston resides in St. Louis. He has never
married.
7 A twin sister of Joseph S. She died young.
8 Sue Maury Houston, who resides in Aberdeen, Missis-
sippi.
12 Samuel Moore Houston, fourth son of Robert
190
Digitized by VjOOQIC
HOUSTON
Houston by his 8e<M>nd wife, Martha Blackburn, settled in
St. Louis about 1867. He married Mary P. Hendon, eldest
daughter of Dr. William P. Hend^on o»f Newbern, Alabama.
They had among other children the following: William S.
Hwiston of Ohichasaw Okninty, Mississippi, w<ho married
Miss Mary Foorsche, of Oklahoma. To them have beea
born children : Samuel and' Mary Houston. Mary Houston,
second child of Samuel Moore Houston: Jessie Hous&im,
another daughter married a lawyer of St Louis,
Walker; Hannah Houston; Albert Houston.
13 Elizobelli L. Housiton, fifth child of Robert Houston
by his second wife, Martha Blackburn, mteuried J. W.
Norwood of Jackson. Tennessee. Thy had the foil nving
children: John Norn-ood, Saffrtuel Norwood, Sallie Norwood
who married Mr. Johnson of Loudon, Tennessee, a 'Vi-v;
Robert Loc'h'd Norwood who married in Kentucky and
resides there.
Martha Eliza Huston, third child of Joseph E. Houston
of Madisonville, Tennessee (No. 10) above, married Thomas
raisha Moore of Cocke County, Tennessee. To them were
born six sons and three daughters, namely: William
Thomas Moore of Cleveland, Tennessee, who married
Jeimie Willis; Janie R. Moore and Elizabeth Moore di d
unmarried; Joe McDonald Moore, who married! Bessie
CSark and who with their six children: Thomas E.,
Edward, Paul, William Glenn, J. Don and Martha Mae
Moore* residb in the West; Paul Andrew Moore of Knox-
ville, married Stella Haun awd has one daug'hter, Freda
Hann Moore; Robert Locke Moore of Morristown, Tennes-
see, who married Tessie Courtney and to whom have been
born fonir daugh'ters: Ailyn, Edna Lynn, Mattie Roe, and
Elizabeth Moore ; Lyle Stickley Moore of Newport, Tennes-
see, w^ho married Madge Mims and who have two children :
Ljie and Myra Lucia Moore; H<al Moore of Cleveland, Ten-
m?ssee, who married Margaret Hardwick, and to whom two
daug'hters have been born : Margaret Hawfwick Moore, de-
ceased, and Martha Francis Moore. Margaret Eliza Moore,
youngest daughter of Martha Eliza (Houston) Moore ana
her husband, Thomas E. Moore, resid-es with her widowed
mother in Cleveland, Teimessee.
Josephine Elliot Houston, sixth child of Joseph E.
Houston of Madisonville, Tennessee, married' September 13,
1880, Vastine Stickley, son of Vastine Stickley of Lee
County, Virginia and his wife, Elizabeth Duff, grand-
daughter of Robin l>uff and Mary Powell (Dickenson) Duff
191
Digitized by VjOOQIC
NOTABLE SOUTHERN FAMILIES
of Russell Ckximty. To Vas4ine Stiokley and his wife,
Josephine E. (Houston) Stickley have been born three sons
and three dlaughters, namely: (1) Elizabeth Duff Stickley
' who imapriedi Thomas M. Hines of the Virginia Marshall-
Keith family. Thomas M. Hines diedi March 17, 1920
l<>aving his widow and their five children: Maxweir A.,
Robert. S., Elizabeth H., Josephine E., and Thomas Keith
Hines. (2) The second' child of Vastine Stickley and his
Wife, Josephine E. (Houston) Stickley is Robert Houston
Stickley, attorney of Memipihis. He marrie^d Nancy E. Jones,
daughler of John M. Jones of Sweetwater, Tennessee. (3)
Eliza McDonald Stickley, «third child of Vastine and
and Josephine (Houston) Stickley married Dr. Robert C.
Kimbrougih of Monroe County. They have one son, Robert
Cook Kimbrough, junior. (4) Dr. Jseph E. Houston Stick-
ley of Madisonville, married Edihh Rhoerer of Kentucky and
has one daug^hter, Antoinet'te Houston Stickley (5) "Mary
McDonald SMckley married Thomas Frederick Wildtoiith
of Birmingham and they have three sons : Vastine, Thomas
Frederick, junior, and Edward Taylor Wildsmith. (6) Vas-
tine Stickley, third' son of Vastine and Josephine (Houston)
Stickley now a stiudteni in College of Pharmacy at Louisville.
Blanche McDonald Houston, seventh child of Joseph E.
Houston of Madisonville, Tennessee, married her cousin,
Hon. Robert Grompton McGroskey of Garfield, Washingtoti.
To them have been borne ithree sons and tlhree daughters,
namely: Eliza Priscilla MoOroskey, Robert Grompton Mc-
Ooskey, junior, Houston McDonald MciGi-oskey, Gladys Mc-
Oosky, Blanche McGroskey and Earl McGroskey. Of
these chiMi*en, Eliza died in infancy; Robert Gom^pton Mc-
Ooskey, jimior, is married and lives in Garfield*: he has a
son Robert McGroskey. Houston McGroskey lives in Gar-
fiel J also, and has a daughter, Jeanetfte. Gladys Me-
•(iroskey marriedt a banker of Spokane, Mr. Kimbrough, and
has two d^aughters. Blanche McGroskey is married and liv<*s
in Garfield, as dies Earl McGroskey, who is also married.
James Haire Houston, fourth •child of Joseph E. Houston
of Madisonville and lizzie Alice Houston, sixth child of Ihe
same, died shortly aflter maturity unmarried.
VI. MATTHEW HOUSTON
Malthew Houston, son of John Houston the emigrant
and his wife, Margaret Gunnifngihaim Houston, was bora
about 1730.
He married Martha Lyle, daughter of Mathew Lyle.
192
Digitized by VjOOQIC
HOUSTON
Martha Lyle was born about 1740.
MaWhew Houston and Martha Lyle Hooiston moved in
1790 frotfn Virginia to Tennessee, settlin-g first on ttie
French Broad River in Blount County and later on Nine
Mile Creek. They had seven children :
(1) John Houston.
(2) Samoiel Houston.
(3) James Houston.
(4) Matlthew Hoois^ton, Second.
(5) Robert Houston.
(6) Esther Housiton.
(7) Margare* Houston.
A lar^ge family comes throtugh these seven children.
Their desoe»nritots are in Tennessee, Alabama, Mississippi
and Texas in hundlreds.
John Houston the first child married Rachel Balch and
had eight c^hildren : Samiiel Houston married Nancy GOles-
pie and hatf ten childireo; James Houston married Phoebe
Mcdfung and had' five children ; Maitthew Houston, Second,
married M«argaret Cloyd and had two children; Robert
Houston died unmarried; Esther Houston married her
cousin Major James Houston and had four cfhildlren; Mar-
garet Houston married Oaptain James Gillespie and had
ten childiren.
James Houston the third son in the foregoing group,
married Phoebe McClung and had' five children namely:
Robert, Matthew, McCdiing, Hettie and' Ann. Of these;
Matthew Houston married Mary Gillespie and had among
other <*ildren Miartha Gillespie Houston who married
John El'der and had among other child^^en, Leander M.
Eider and Eva Grace Elder.
Leander M. Elder married- Mary Safl^arvaus and had
six childiren, namely: Blanche Louise Elder (who married
Thomas H. Urmston and) has Thomas H. Urmston, Second),
Irene Houston Elder (who majried Chester Watkins and
has Elizabeth Watkins, Charlotte Watkins and Chester
Watkins, Second), George Saffarvaus Elder (who married
Hazel Garrison and has Oliver Laiwrence Garrison Elder
and' Mary Elder) , Elizabeth Eldier (who married Halsey B.
Leavitt and has Halsey B. Leavitl, Second, and Martha
Elder Leavitt), Mary Grace Elder (who mlarried Henry
Berry ancii has one son, Dan Berry) ; and Martha Elder
(who married James T. Monahan and died without issue).
Eva Grace Elder married Forrest Fergiison of St. Louis.
From Matthew H^ouston and hi5 wife Martha Lyle
193
Digitized by VjOOQIC
NOTABLE SOUTHERN FAMILIES
Haustx)n comes also flie family of which Mrs. S. C. Peeples,
of Chattanooga, and her brottier, Mr. John Russell Pitner
are onembeirs.
VII. JAMEiS HOUSTON
Jaones Houston, son of John Houston the emigrant and
his wi'fe Margaret Qunningham Houston was bom in Ire-
lanid sometime previous to 1735 as in that year his parents
emigrated to America and left him behind. He died' in
Ireland.
Though last in this list, it is said Ihait »he was the eldest
Bon; in «t)bat case he was born aboiuit 1715. He died in young
manhood, unimarnied'.
A Houston, probably close^ly related' to the family called
^the "Sam Houston Family*' because it ppod»ucedi that famous
ohiairtacter, married' Alice Armstrong. The two families
Armstrong and Houston, came from the north of Ireland
in #ie saime year, (1735) and settled near each Other in
Peainsylvania. Alice Armstrong was a diaoighter of the
eomigrant Robert Armstrong and' John Houston was the
emigrant Houston. Since his sons' marriages are ac-
counted for in the family record, herein given the Houston
whom Alice Armstrong married' may have been his- brother,
(•tradition says he had (two brothers who came to America
with him) or more probably a nephew. A further point of
connection in addition to the name, location and date of
emigration is the fact that Alice Armstrong's brother,
Ro^bert Armstrong, married Margaret Cunningham and
John Houston's wi'fe was ailso Margaret Cunningham.
Houston married' Alice Armstrong in Abbeville
District, South Carolina, where they remainedl for a short
time, later moving to Tenness^ee. (A large family was bom
to themj AiDong ^their children was Robert Armstrong
Houston, bom in Abbeville District, South Carolina, in 1765,
dlied in Tennessee April 2, 1834. He was appointedl by
Secretary of War John G. OalHioun (his mother's kinsman)
United Slates Commissioner to the Indians. This was for
the Indian Treaty of 1819. Robert Aransitrong Houston
married Margaret Davis and had four daughters and at
least two sons, Alice Houston, Amelia Houston, Malinda
Houston and Rutelia Houston, James Housrton and Horace
Houston.
Alice Houston, daugihter of Robert Houston and Marg£a*et
Houston, married James McMillan and had Robert Houston
McMillan (who married twice and had- by his first wife
194
Digitized by VjOOQIC
HOUSTON
(Martha Isbell) two cJhildren Alice McMillan who is not
marriod and James Benjamin McMillan wftio married
Sj^nthia Ounningliam and ha^i William Gunningham Mc-
itlan, Alice McMillan, Rutelia Isbell McMill^eui, Mary
McMillan and Kitty B. McMillan; and had by bis second
wife (Missouri Is^biell) low children, RK>beTt Houston Mc-
Millan, Second, whc married Sarah Grey euid left Robert
Houston McMillan, Third, died' younfg, Allen Gray McMillan
imd Catherine McMillan, and Fannie McMillan (who mar-
ried J. F. Winkle anl left Robert McMillan Winkle and J F.
Winkle; Alice McMillan (who married Maj-or Gaines Mc-
Millan as his second wife and lia«d no childlpen) ; and James
While McMillan (who married LauTa Hendrick and had
Julia Hardin McMillan, Amelia Alice McMillan, Annie L.
McMillan, Mary Lurina McMillan, William Hendrick Mc-
MiMan. Nannie Missouri McMillan, J«mes White McMillan,
Second; Luke Hampton McMillan, Launa Hou&ton McMillan,
Frances Louise McMillan and Frank Alexander McMillan.)
A/melia Hcuston, <Jaughter of Robert Houston and
Margaret Davis Houston, married' her cousin, Dniry Paine
Anmstrong in 1823. Their children were Roibert Housrton
ArmaJtrong (whb married Louise Franklin and had three
children, Robert Franklin Armstrong who married twice,
first Oelia Houston and second' Annie Wetzel and has no
children, ElSzal)eth Armstrong who married James P.
McMillan and had R-obert Arms»trong McMillan, died young,
Jaimes P. McMillian and had Robert Armstrong McMillan
and Laura McMillin who married Thomas H. Wagner and
has Mary Elizabeth Wagner and Annie McMillan Wagner,
and Adelia Armstrong wiho married J. Edward' Lutz and has
Louise Lutz who married Dr. Victor Holloway, and Ed»win
Lutz, who married' Eleanor Atkin) ; Marcellus Murat Arm-
strong, called Whack (who married Elizaibeth G. McGee
and had Drury Paine Armslrong, died unmarried, Joseph
McGee ArmMrong married Mary L. Hiampton, Leoniclas
Bruce Armslirong, Second, married first Pa/uiline Fearn and
married second Margaret Brajdford, and Amelia Armstrong
who married' J. A. Bankston) ; Leonidas Bruce Armstrong,
First, (who died ummirried) ; and Adelia Armstrong (who
married William Calvert Hill and had Geor^ Armstrong
Hill married Georgia Ann Wallis and has children and
Amelia Hill who married Clement C. IXmglas and has
children).
Malinda Houston, daughter of Robert Housiton and
195
Digitized by VjOOQIC
NOTABLE SOUTHERN PAMIUES
Margaret Davis Houston married Robert McNiitt,
Rortelia Houston, fourth daughter of Robert Houston and
Miargaret Davis Houston married James Isbell an^d had
Margaret Isbell (who married Major James Hardie and
had no childiren) ; Fannie Isbell (who married William
Doynlon) ; Houston I&bell (who dieid urnnamed) ; Thomas
Livingston Isbell (who married Mattie J. Norris and had
Rutelia Houston Armstirong w/ho marrieKi W. H. Lane and
has one ohild, Rutelia Isbell Lane) ; and Alioe Isbell (who
married her oousin William Park Armstrong, and had
William Park Armstrong, Second, m«irried R^ebeka Purvis
and has Rebekah Purvis Armstrong, WiHam Park Arm-
stirong, Third, George Purvis Armstrong. Ann EHzabeth
Armstrong and Jane Grozier Armstrong; Houston C,
Armstrong married Mina Lamar and has Houston Ohurch-
Garey Armstrong) ; Margaret Hardie Armstrong married
Ainslie Power Ardagih and 'has Margaret Apdagh, Ainslee
Power Ardagh, Second, Alice Ardagh, Kathleen Ardagh and
Edith Ardagh, and Annie Elizabetlh ArmBifcrong married
Thomas Stoo Johnson and has no oMldren).
James Hous-ton the eldest son of Robert Houston and
his wife Margaret Davis Houston married .
Horace Houston, the second s-on of Robert Houston and
Margaret Davis Houston married in Blount County, Tennes-
see a Howard.
GEORGE HOUSTON, EMIGRANT
George Houston married a Miss Ware about 1760. He
came from Ireland to Pennsylvania thence to Mecklenburg
County, North Carolina, along with the Jacks, Rosses,
Wilsons and otihers. This couple, George Houston ana
wife had at least four sons, Thomas, William. Samuel and
George Ware. Of these four sons, northing is known of the
two first named.
Samuel Houston married Mary Kirk in Mecklenburg
County, North GaroJina, 1795. Their children were John,
Margaret, George Ware, Nancy, Abner, Mary Melissa, Jane
Eliza, Samuel Allison, William Wilson and Setih. John was
last heard of in Arkaoisas ; Margaret married Joseph Wal-
lace and lived in North Carolina. Nancy married W. A,
Brown, lived in Tennessee and moved to Texas; Abner
married and lived in Texas; Mary Melissia married John
McCann and lived in Tennessee, afterwards moved to Texas ;
Jane Eliza married William Naill and lived in Tennessee
196
Digitized by VjOOQIC
the "Genlle
. "The Lads of
V stealing Sim
ation :
ride,
ii Niitih side,
oil his 'hide'.
.' Marquisate of Annan-
1 ^ Harlfell and Bath; the
ironies of Lochwood, Loch-
iith and' Derrveni, and the
.:ij)ihinsto.ne, Westerfiall, Hack-
:<]iiary (A. 85) was of opinion
nns like Bruce, Baliel, Gtordon and
I ance with William I. He identified
IIP de Joinville, imentioned by the old
int' (h Tailleair, as assisting at the battle
I he name appears again half-Saxonized
n.' I'oll of Battle Abbey.
I Wallace is said to have been brought' up
> of a Jo<hnston, and' the assertion is quite
.lis home was rn Lenark, just North of Annan-
■ I Hand it was allowable for each knight to wear
ii»' design on Ihis shield as his chief; some ohang©
r or line being necessary, of course, to distinguish
\'nm\ anot/her. The firsi lords of Anonandale were
Hriicf^s, whose arms were silver, willh a red saltire^
liagono-nal cross) and a gold chief band across the upper
s.'clion; and while serving as vassals of the Bruces the
Johnstons wore for their arms a silver sihield with a black
199
Digitized by
Google
NOTABLE SOUTHERN FAMILIES
bama. He married Miss Pearl WhWmen and they had two
cJhildren, Samuel Frank and Margaret.
Mary Kirk and Jane Kirk were daughters of John and
Sarah (Steele) Kirk of North Carolina.
Digitized by
Google
JOHNSTON
The Johnstons are often peferredi to as t'he "Gen'tle
Johnstons," and in a Border ballad, entitled "The Lads of
Wamphray," we find the Galliard after stealing Sim
Gritohton's 'wisdom dun', calling an invitation:
Now Siawmy, Siaimiy of tlhe side,
€^me out and} see a Jolhnston ride,
Here's the bonniest horse in a *N'i«t)h side,
And a gentle Jo'hnston aboon his !hide\
The family honiors inolude the Marquisate of Annan-
diale; the Earld»oims of Anniandtei'le, Hartfell and Bath; tho
Mscounis of Annandale; the Baronies of Lochwood, Loch-
ben, Motfaldale, Evandale, Bath and Derrvenl, and the
Baronetcies of Gaskieben, Elplhinstoiie, Westerhall, Hack-
ness and Gilford.
A Scottish border antiquary (A. 85) was of opinion
that the original Johnstons like Bruce, Baliel, Gordon and
Jardine, came from France wil!h William I. He identified
him with the Sedgneur de Joinville, mentioned by the old
ohronicl T Guillamme dl^ Tailleur, as assisting at the battle
of Hastings, and the name appears again half-Saxonized
inito Janvil, on the noil of Battle Abbey.
Sir William Walliace is said to have been brouglitl up
in 'the faimily of a Johnsion, and the assertion is quite
credible as his home was in Lenark, just North of Annan-
dale.
In Scotland it was allowable for each knight to wear
the same design on Ibis shield as his chief; some ohang©
in color or line being necessary, of course, to distinguish
one from another. The first lords of Anonandale were
the Bruces, whose arms were silver, willh a red saltire^
(diagononal cross) and a gold chief band across the upper
section; and while serving as vassads of Dhe Bruces the
Jc^hnstons ware for their arms a silver shield with a black
199
Digitized by
Google
NOTABLE SOUTHERN FAMIUES
saitire and i^ chief. After the Bruces came Khe Ranctolphs,
whose arms consisted of tihree red cushions on the silver
field; anfd in order to show their allegiance fto their new
maslers, the Johnstons put three gold cushions on the red
chief of tfhedp shields. When the Johnstons were raised to
the i>eerage their arms were confirmedi in the above design,
which is officially described Argent, a saltire sable, on a
chief gules, three cushions.
The crest of the clan is a winged spur, or "flying spur'*,
as Sir Walter Scott calls it. There is a legend explaining
the way in wfhich the crest was awarded, which recites
that while John Baliol was King of Scotland, Edward, King
of England, tried* to make him acknowlcdlge Scotland to be
tributary ito England, and Robert Bruce, then Earl j(
Oarrick, bitterly opposed the scheme. Edward, upon
hearing of Bruce's opposition, laid a plot to seize him, and
was >only prevented from doing so by Baliol's sending the
chief of the Jo'hnstons to Bruce with a. warning. Baliol did
not wish to write to Bruce for fear the message should be
intercepted by the followers of Edward, so he sent! a spur
to which was tied a bird's wing. Bruce took the hint and
saved himself by flight, and wthen he became King he con-
tevred the crest of the winged spur upon the messenger.
When Sir James Jbihnston was Lord Warden of West
Marches his motto was *'ali'ght thieves €dl"; but when the
chief of the clan was raised to the peerage the motto was
changed to 'Nunquam non paratus' (Never unready). This
motto was particularly appropriia'te, as it is said that when
the chief used to muslter his clan for balttle it wtas the custom
for him to ask : ''Men of Annandale, aire ye ready?'' and the
answer was invariably, "Aye, ready".
The Clan badlge is red hawthorn. The Seat of the
Johnston clan, is Looherby, near center of district of
Annandalo-Caslle of Loch wood, situated at 'that place.
Though their origin is Scotch, some of the Johnstons
wenrt to Iriland, County of AntHm, at the .time so many
Scotc^hmen emigrated here as has been oflten noted *n
this series. The tradition that the emigrant to Ireland^
or possibly one of his immediate succssors married an
"Irish lady" is scarcely borne out /by the records of the
people, for it was their boast fthat for two hundred years the
Scotch Nation of Ireland" as they liked tlo call themselves
never "intermarried" with the Irish. Of course, the John-
ston, who is said to have married the Irish lady may have
been the exception which proved the rule. This would seem
200
Digitized by
Google
JOHNSTON
indeed to be indiciated by the birth near Dublin of the seven
Jofcnstans, who emigrated to America.
Aflter livinig in Ireland a length of time not n€W kno vn,
the Johnstons like hundreds of their Scotch Irish neighbors
decided to emigrate to the new Icuid ot America. In 1768
the four Johnston brothers, J-ohn, William, Francis and
Joseph whK) were all born near Ehiblin and presumably their
three sisters, Margaret, Niamey and Jean, all set sail for
America. They landea in Philade'lphia and settled for a
short time in Pennsylvania, when following the tide of
emigration, they moved to Virginia and froan thence to
South Carolina and Tennessee.
While this article primarily concerns tShe Tennessee
Johnstons, a 'brief reference to the Norfli Carolina group
is not amiss. Governor Jobnsiton and his family of that
state are all from the seme stock, and it is believed
thai the extinct Martjuisite of AnnandiaJe should be vested
in the North Carolina branch. Alabama Johnstons are
from the North Carolina family, the late Governor Joseph
Forney Johnston being of North Carolina extraction.
There ^\•ere three Governors of 'North Carolina of the
family and name. All were emigrants from Scotland and
all were born in or near Dundee. They were : Governor
Gabriel J*ohnston, Governor Jo>hn Johnston, and the latter^s
son. Governor Sammel Jo«hn&'t!on. Samuel Johnston was born
near Dunidee, Scotland, in 1733 and this date shows the
approximate date of his father's and uncle's birth to be
aboiit 1700, or a little earlier. Gabriel Johnston was Gov-
ernor of the Province o^f North Carolina in 1734 and was
followed in 1736 by his brother. John Johnston. Governor
John Johnston's emigration eviaen'tly took place betvi^een the
date of his son's birtflh in Dundee in 1733 and this appoint-
ment lo the Governorship in 1736. No approximate date of
Governor Gabriel Johnston's emigration can be given.
Samuel Johnston, born in Dundee, Scotland', in 1733,
emigrated wilh his father, John Johnston, say 1734. He
held almost every posisible office in the Province and State
and in 1787 was elected Governor of that Stiate.
Governor Johnston's wife was Helen Scrymsour.
Governor Samuel Johnston's wife vms Penelope Eden, only
daughter of Governor Eden.
In America in the Revolution there were many John-
stons and in the War Between the States there were four
G«eraLs in the Oomfederate Army all suppKysedly kinsmen
and fill of t!he names spelledi with a "t". Brigadier General
201
Digitized by
Google
NOTABLE SOUTHERN PAMIUES
George D. Johnston, lieutenant General Albert Sidney
Johnfirton, Lieutnant Generai Joseph Eggleston Johnston
and Brigajdier General Robert D. Jofhnston. Of the most
femous are General Albert Sidney Jo^hnston. who gave his
life for the So-ubh at Shdloh, April 6, 1862. and General
Joseph E. Johnston whose brilliant career tnroughout the
War is ateo w«elll known.
The Tennessee family of Johnston comes from She line
of the four brothers who were born near Dublin, Ireland,
in ithe middle of the Eighteenth Century. These four
brothers, John Johnston, Joseph Jo*hnston, Francis Johns»ton
and William Johnston had three sisteirs, Margaret Johnson,
Nancy Johnston and Jean Johnston. Margaret married a
Mr. Shaw, Nancy a Mr. Henderson and Jean a Mr. Jones.
It is the belief of the family that they sprang from the
AnnandaJe Johnstons, and that one of the family went over
into Ireland dliring the persculion and married an Irish
lady.
John Johnston, the eldest chiM of the foregoinjg group
was born near Dublin, Ireland, in 1735. His half brother,
Joseph Jchnston, was born near Dublin February 28, 1745,
the biriths of 'the other five brothers and sisters have not
been given.
The family of four brothers emigrated from Ireland to
rennsylvania about the year 1768. Two years later they
went to Virginia and there made settlements in 1770. John
Johnsiton settled in Rockbridige County, Virginia, married
and raised a family.
The seven brothers and sisters who came from Dublin
to America about the year 1768 will be token up in the
following order:
I. John Johnston.
II. Joseph Johnston.
III. Francis Johnston.
IV. William Johnston.
V. Margaret Johnston.
VI. Nancy Johnston.
VII. Jean Johnston.
I. JOHN JOHNSTON
Jo^hn Johnston, eldest of the group of brothers who
emigrated to America from Ireland about the year 1768,
was the only son of his mother and was a half brother
to Joseph Johnston, Francis Jdhnston, William Johnston,
Margaret Johnston, Nancy Johnston, and) Jean Johnston.
202
Digitized by
Google
JOHNSTON
He was bom near Dublin aboirt 1735 and emigpated
to Ataerica about 1768. They moved to Virginia about
1770 and from there to Washinglon County, Tennessee,
about the year 1800. He died there about 1806. He had
married and had a family. Some of his children remained
in Virginia, but ihis son ^Samuel Johnston accompanied
him to Tennessee and after his father's dieath moved to
Blount Ctounty.
Samiuel Johnston mai^riedf Nancy S'haw and died in 1846.
He left ten children :
( 1 ) John Johnston, Second.
(2) Samuel McMillan Johnston.
(3) Esther Johnston.
(4) Margaret Johnston.
(5) William Johnston.
(6)Josialh Johnston.
(7) Francis Johnston.
(8) James Harvey Johnston.
(9) Anna Johnston.
(10) Hamilton Johnston.
(1) John Jo^hnston Vhe eldest son of Samuel Johnston
and Nancy Shaw Johnston marriedl Keziah Rowan in 1815.
(2) Samuel McMillan Johnston, son of Samuel John-
ston and Nancy Shaw Johnston, married his cousin,
Mangaret Johnston, dauigWter of Joseph Johnston, about
1817. Their child'ren were: Nancy A. (who married
Z. EdKvards and haidl Samuel Edwards, William Edwards
ajid Sarajh Edwards, all of w'hom died without issue and
Margaret Edwards who married' W. H. Lowry and had four
children) ; James Hajrvey Johnson (who married Jane
Qaldiwell in 1845 and had s-ix ohiMren) ; Ebenezer E.
Johnson. (who married Armina Montgomery in 1846 and
had fou/r children) ; Lucinda Jane Johnston (Who married
0. H. P. Caldwell in December 1843 and had five children,
James A. Caldwell who married Elizabellh Gillespie and has
Percy A. Cteldwell, Rhobie Caldwell married Fredl Smallman
and Elsie Caldwell married Roland Olmstead; Alice Cald-
well; Mary Caldwell; Samuel Caldlwell; and Sarah Cald-
well) ; Jefferson LaFayette Johnston (who married Bettie
Blair in 1858 and had one child and, after her death married
Befttie McGhee and had five children. Among -their dhildren
are : Hugh M. Johnston, who married! Lillie Shipp and has
203
Digitized by
Google
NOTABLE SOUTHERN FAMIUES
two daughters, Lynn Russell Johnston and Elizabeth John-
son, Samuel Hugh Hardin, who married Lillie Shippandhas
Thomas H. Jo'hnston, whose wife was Nona G. McDermoti
They have H«ugh Saanuel Johnston and Louise Johnston.
Ester Johnston (who married Peter Hardin and left one
son, Samuel M. Hardin, who mtrried Lillie Shipp and has
no ofhildren) ; Margaret Johnston (who married J. F. McQill
and died in 1910, ihaving had eig'ht chOdren, Ave of whom
are living).
(3) Elstheir Johnston, daughter of Samuel Jdhnston and
Niancy Shaw Johnston marri^ Josiah Rowan in 1819. They
had several children, one of whom was Colonel John A.
' Rowan who commanded 62 Tennessee Confederate Reg-
iment.
(4) Margaret Johnston, daughter of Samuel Johnston
and Nancy Shaw Johnston married her cousin, Samuel
J'ohnston, son of Joseph Johnston in 1818.
(5) William Johnsiton, son of Samuel Johnston and
Nancy Shaw Johnston, married Nancy Finley in 1820.
(6) Josia/h Johnsiton, son of Samuel Johnston and Nancy
Shaw Johnston married Clarissa Prater about 1828.
(7) Francis Johnston, son of Samuel Johnston and
Nancy Shaw Johnslon married Jane Ferguson in 1838.
(8) James Harvey Johnston, &on of Samuel Johnston
and Nancy Shaw Johnston, married Nancy Walker in 1835.
(9) Anna Johnston, daugjhter of Samuel Johnston and
Nancy Johnston, never married.
(10) Hamilton Johnston, son of Samiuel Johnston and
Nancy Shaw Johnston, married Isabella Auneau in 1835.
II. JOSEPH JOHNSTON
Joseph Johnston, who was born in or near, Dublin,
Ireland, February 28, 1745 and emigrated to America in
about the year 1767, settled with his brothers in Virginia
in 1770. He served in the Revolution and was a Sergeant
in Captain Joseph Spencer's Company.
In July 1778, Joseph Johnston and his brother Francis
Johnston made a trip to Charleston, South Carolina, and
were so deligihted with the country that Joseph Johnston
decided 'to remain there. He married Margaret Graham,
of Graham's Ford, in 1781.
Margaret Graham had emigrated from Ireland in 1770
with her brother, Robert Graiham. They had settled in
Southwestern Virginia near Wytheville, according to Dr. J.
T. Graham, of Wytheville. The ten sons and daughters of
Joseph and Margaret Graham Johnston were bom in York
204
Digitized by
Google
JOHNSTON
District, SouilJh (Carolina. They lived on *be Padfen River
near the "Old National Fond".
About the Year 1816, Joseph and Margaret Gpaham
Johnston and their entire family moved to Tennessee,
Blount County, and he later bought ten farms in Monroe
and Roane Co^mtiee, Tennessee, leaving one foran to each
of his fen children.
He died Aug«u&t 15, 1825, on the farm AMhere he lived
for several years, one and a ^alf miles sooith of Blair's
Ferry, now near Loudion where his grandson, James
Harrison Johnston now lives. Joseph and Margaret Gra-
ham Johnston aire buried at tlhe Old Brick 'Oburch wbere
they lived in Blount County.
From a memorandum book kept by Joseph Johnston,
beiginning Februaiy 16th, 1770, we find that he came to
Virginia from Pennsylveuiia. Other items in the book show
that he had business transactions with Francis Johnston,
who m<ust 'have been a brother.
He kept ajocounts with the Exchange Bank of George-
town, Mechanics Bank of Baltimore, and a Virginia Bank
in 1773. In July 1778, he and' Francds Johnston made a
trip 'to Charleston, South Carolina, and an account of tJie
expenses of both on that trip w«us kept. He has accounts
also with John Johnston and James Johnston, presumably
bro'thers. He 'has entries of notes on Bank of Tennessee,
payable at Nashville, and the State Bank of North Carolina,
Wilmington, NorUh Carolina.
Another entry in the book reads: **Received from
Robert Graham on a note, 13 pounds and 12 shillings.
Received from John Johnston, on Francis Johnston's
account, six pounds and six- shillings, April the IQth, 1797,
-and 260 fee-t of board. December ye 10th, 1779; this is
the bargain between Francis JohnstJon and Josep^h Johnston,
viz., that Joseph Jo^hnston bought ye half of a steel and
vessels for 300 pownds".
After Joseph Johnston removed to South Carolina he
accumuJated a fortune, and when his chiM'ren were all
grown, he moved 'to Blount County, Tennessee, and after-
wards to Roane, which is now Loudon County.
He bought ten plantations in that section of the country
known as "Sweetewater Valley'', between Blount County,
and Chattanooga. He gave a plantation to each one of his
children an(d ?Purnis<hed it with stock and negroes ; but he
set most of his own negroes free after he moved to Tennes-
see, >and sent them back to Liberia. One negro who was
205
Digitized by VjOOQIC
NOTABLE SOUTHERN PAMIUES
liberated, was very young at the time, and started, with
hifi mother, to Liberia, but wiien they embarked at Savan-
nah, Georgia, he turned' back witli one or two olihers, pre-
ferring rather to bear 'the ills he already had than to fly to
fliose he knew not of. His mother, after she arrived in
Africa, wrote to her mistress several times, amd occasionally
sent presents of coffee and other products of Hhe country,
in exchange for iobacco an<l presents sent them from this
county. 'Riey were ncrt sa'tisfied in Liberia and wished to
return. In Joseph Johnston's will it will be found' that he
Sve to each of his dhil-dren a body servant or maid, with
B proviso that they should be 'teuight 'tlo reaxi and and be
set free ait the a'ge of IMrty. In his will he also ordered
that his books of divinity ehouM be divided amongst his
sons and daughters, but that his other books should be
divided amongst Ms sons only. Evidently believing that it
was not necessary for women to know anything except
religion. Joseph Johns^ton served' as courier in he Conti-
nental forces, during the Revolutionary war, and, for many
yeiars, the family possessed Ihe note book, kept by him, with
reHnarks upon the campaign from Newport, Rhode Island,
to Charleston, South Carohna.
He, his ancestors 'and most of his desoendant« have
been Scotch-Irish Presbyterians, of the strictest faiflh, and
have been noted for their inltegrity of character and solid
qualities, «tlthough a trifle austere. They acknowledge but
one right and one wrong, and recognize no circuitous routes
between the two.
The children of Joseph John&tJon and Margaret Graham
Johnston were :
(1) James Johnston.
(2) Josiah Johnston, born 1785.
(3) Frances Johnston.
(4) Samuel Johnston.
(5) Joseph Johnston, Second.
(6) Robert Johnston.
(7) Ebenezer Johnston.
(8) William Johnston.
(9) Margaret Johnston.
(10) Jean Johnston.
(1) James Johnston married Rachel Martin. Their
children were: Joseph Johnston, William Johnston,
Ebenezer Johnston, Francis Johnston, Polly Jo^hnston,
Michael Jofhnston and Martha Johnston.
(2) Josiah Johnston married Esther Walker, of Penn-
206
Digitized by VjOOQIC
JOHNSTON
sylvania. Their children were : Joseph Johnston, Walker
Johnston, James Johnston, Francis Johns^ton, William
Johnston, E)mmett Jobnston and Nancy Ann Johnston (who
married Dr. Ford).
Of the foregoing:
Joseph Johnston married Caroline Hair and had seven
chi'ldrai, namely: James Johnston^ Inez John&ton, Hester
Johns/ton, Alice Johnston, Caroline Johnston, Francis
Johnston and Joseph Johnston. Jaimes Joihn&rton married
Lucy Oall'oway. She died soon after their maariage. He
lives at the old Johnston place near MadisonviHe, Tennes-
see. Inez Johnston married Captain H. H. Taylor of Knpx-
ville and left two children, <ja!roline Taylor and Alfred
Taylor. Hester Johnston married Reed, of Lexington,
Kentucky and' had two sons, one of Whom died in infancy,
the other, Josep(h J. Reed married Felicia Murray of Ander-
son, South Gfwolina and lives in Knoxville. Alice Johnston
died young. Caroline Johnston married Luke Cfitllaway.
and had two children, Lucy Callaway who died young and
Thomas Call'oway wiio married' Rhodia King Shields and
lives (in Knoxville. Francis Johnston (married' Elizabeth
Houston and has two children, Elizabeth Johnston and
Locke Johnston.
Joseph Johnston .
Walker Johnston never married.
James Miller Johns-ton, married Sarah Tucker who
was the daaighter of John Tucker and Mary (Polly)
Haigler of Lenoir Oourity, Niorth Cairolina, Who had moved
from North Carolina to Tennessee in 1838 and settled at
Tucke»r's Springs in Bradley County, seven miles south of
Cleveland, Tenneswe.
The children of James Johnston and Sarah Tucker,
were John Tucker Johnston, Ida Johnston, Josiah BmmeM
Johnston, Esther May Johnston, James Francis Johnston,
Saomiel Marshall Johnston and William Thomas Johnston.
John Tucker Johnston married Mary Tipton of Cleve-
land, they had three children, James Johnston who died
young; Willie Johnston, "Bunnie" (as she was affection-
ately calledi) wlho died at the age of twen*ty-two in Hahn-
emann hospital in Philadelphia upon returning to The
States after a visit in Jamaica; and Clyde Johnston, who
married C. L. Hardwick and lived in Cleveland.
Ida Johnstion married' John A. Steed of Cleveland; their
eldest child, Mary Johnsrton Steed married W. C. Nevin of
Sewickley, Pennsylvania, and had ihree children: Sarah
207
Digitized by VjOOQIC
NOTABLE SOUTHERN FAMIUES
Amelia Nevin, Esther Johnfrtan Nevin (died in infancy) and
William Cunningham Nevin, Sadie Steed -married Walter
Wilson af Cleveland, Tennessee; they have two cshiMren:
Sarah Gordon Wilson and Williaim Steed Wilson. Gaim[^Il
Stieed died young. Gef tnide Steed married John Blackwood
of Osceola, Arkansas, Francis Gruham Steed.
Josiah Emmett) Johnston married Ruth Prances Nuck-
olls of Galax, Virginia, they liave one diild, Mary Rutti
Johnston, who (married Dr. Oarl Thomas Spec, of Morris-
town, Tennessee.
Esther May Johnston married first, James H. Bible of
Cleveland, they had one son who died in infancy; sbe
married second, John G. Brown of Blackfoot, Idaho, and
has no dhildren.
James Francis Jo^hnston married Bessie Key of Chatta-
nooga, they had two children, a daughter, Mary France*
Johnston, who died young and a son, Summerfleld Key
Johnston.
Samuel Marshall Johnston married Ophelia Knox ol
dharleston, Tennessee, they have one daiighter, Elizabeth
Johnston and one son, James Miller J*ohnston.
William Thomas Jo^hnslton married Gertrude Morgan,
who died in 1906, they 'had three children, Morgan John-
ston, Rhoda Inman Johnston and William Thomas
Johnston.
Francis Johnston never married.
William Johnston married Belle McGariy and lived
near Charleston, Tennessee. They had three children,
namely: Mary Johnston, Nannie Johnston and Betty
Johnston. Mary Jo^hnston married Elijah Brown of Atlanta^
and has two ohiWren, William Brown and Esther Brown.
Nannie Johnston married J. E. Craig and 'had two childtt^m,
Frank Craig and J. E. Craig, junior. They lived in Gaines-
ville, Georgia. Betty Johnston married Mozier. She
lives with her mother, Mrs. William Johnston in CaJhoun,
Tennessee. Williaim Johnston was a surgeon in the Con-
federate Army and was killed in the Baitile of Vicksburg
wlhile attending wounded* soldiers.
Emmett Johnston married Caroline Tucker (See How-
ard Family) and had six children, namely: Eugene John-
ston, Francis Johnston, and! French Johnston. Eugene
Johnston diedf in 1915. Mary Johnston married M. L. Beard
and had three children, Frankie Beard, May Beard and
French Beard". Joseph Johnston married Ella Wehiinl
208
Digitized by
Google
JOHNSTON
and had^ one child, Caroline Johnston. French Johnston
died in 1907.
Nancy Ann Johnston tnarried Dr. Ford. They had three
ctoildren, J. D. Ford, William Ford and Francis FowJ, all
of whom are imiinri^ and live in Texas.
(3) Francis Johnston married KaWe Dnincan. Their
childpen were: Joseph Johnston, George Johnsflon, and
two dau^ters, all of whom moved' to Iowa in 1855.
(4) Samuel Johnston married his cousin, Margflunet
Johnston. Their childTen were: Francis Johnston, John
Johnston, Ebenezer Johniston, Joseph Johnston and
Mlargaret Johnston.
(5) Joseph Johnston, the Second, married Hester Hen-
derson. Their children were: John Johnston, Francis
Johnston, Margaret Johnston, Cynthia Johnston and
another daught-er.
(6) Robert Jo»hnston died unmarried.
(7) El>^ezer Johnston, seventh child of Joseph John-
ston and Margareb Graham Johnston was born August 30,
1800. He married August 5th, 1830, Hannah Hughes HutT.
Ebenezer and his bachelor brother, Robert, inherited
the plantation where their parents died, and continued to
dwell there until their death; Robert in July 1863, and
Ebenezer in September 1867; the wife of Ebenezer also
died at the same place, in September 1878, and the 'Ihree
are buried in the old burying ground there. Their home-
stead has descended to James H. Johnston, third' son of
Ebenezer, who is at present living with hi» family in the
house originally built by Joseph Johnston.
Robert Johnston served as Colonel andi Ebenezer John-
ston as CSaptain of the Stfcite militia for many years, having
received their commissions from Governor Cai'i*oil.
All the sons of and the two sons«-in-law of Eb(^n(»zer
served in the Confederate army, except William McEwen
Johnston, who was too young — ihis next older brother,
Jerome Von Albadb having entered the service at the age
of seventeen. He was shot through the le^ at the battle
of "Big Mock" near Vicksburg, Mississippi, and made a
prisoner. His older brother, John Yates Johnston, Captain
of Com'pany P, 62nd Tennessee Volunteers, w£U3 captured
at the same time and was a prisoner on Johnston's Islani
Ohio, for twenty-two months. After the war was closed
Joseph Marshall Johnston went to New York and was for
many years a partner in the firm of R. T. Wilson &
Company, bankers. He afterwards settled in Macon,
209
"Digitized by
Google
NOTABLE SOUTHERN FAMILIES
Georgia. He was one of the large&t planters in < the Stale
and president) of the American National Bank. John Yates
Johnston w^s a capitalist of Knoxville, Tennessee, James
H. Johnston, as previously mentioned, is living at the
homesteadi in Tennessee; Jerome Von Albade Johnston is
largely interested in developing the mineral resources of
Southwestern Virginia.
William McEwen Jahnstoii, the youngest son, ifter leav-
ing Washington Ctollege, in Ijexinigton, Virginia, in 1870,
went to New York City, where he was a member of the firm
of R. T. Wilson & Company, Bankers for many years.
After has marriage he removed to Macon, Georgia, where
he n'ow lives, not being actively engaged in any business.
T^ie children of Ebenezer Johnston and Hannah Hughes
Huff Johnston were: Melissa Clementine Johnston, born
May 9l!h,1831; Robert Franklin Johnston, born Dec^Mnber
8th, 1832; Mary Jeian Johnston, born October 9th, 1834;
Joseph Marshall Johnston, born May 21st, 1837; John Yates
Johnston, born Odober 20th, 1839; James Harrison John-
ston, bom January 22nd, 1842; Jerome Von Albade John-
ston, born February 4th, 1845; Milton Graham Johnston,
born Novem'ber 14th, 1847; William McEwen Johnston,
born July 20, 1850; and Hanniah Elizabeth Johnston, born
October 17, 1857.
Melissa Clementine Johnston married Richard Thornton
Wilson. She lived in New York and lived to be nearly
eighty. They had five children, the oldest iPauprhler
Mary Wilson married Ogden Goolet. Their children wnr^
was frequency compared to that of Queen of Denmark,
who married every child to a crown. The Wilsons married
the American equlivalent — ^wealth. The eldest daughter,
Mary Wilson Married Ogdien Goelelt. Their children were :
May Gk)elet, who is Duchess of Roxburghe and Robert
Goelet. Orme Wilson married Caroline Aistor and has two
sons, Richard Thornton Wilson, and Marshall Orme Wil-
son, Junior Leila Belle Wilson, the second ddUiihltT,
married Michael H»enry Herbert', then an attache of the
British Embassy at Washington. At the time of his dea^
he was Sir Mich&el Hcfrbert and British Aonbassador at
Washington. Lady Herbert has two sons. Richard Thorn-
ton Wilson, Junior, the second sou mi Mr. Richard
Thornton Wilson and Melissa Clementine Johnston Wilson
married Marian Mason of Boston and has two children.
Grace Wilson, the youngest daughter married Cornelius
Vandeirbilt, Brigadier General of the United States Army
210
Digitized by
Google
JOHNSTON
Army and has two children, Cornelius Vanderbilt, Third,
wlho was also in the United) States Army and Grace Vandt^r-
bilt. Oornelius Vanderbilt, ithird married Radhel Liltlelon.
Robert Rranklin Johnston died young.
Mary Jean Johnston married Simeon D. Reynolds. She
had no children.
Joseph Maipsball Johnston married Martha Fannin
Hueguenin and had two children, MarUia Johnston, who
married William de Lacey Kountze, an-d had two children,
M«Lrtha and Helen; and Richard W. Johnston, who roamed
Isabelle Thomas and left daoighters, Isabelle ajid Pemella.
Richard W. Johns»ton died December 28, 1808.
28, 1808.
John Yaies Johnston married Sue Ayers and had three
child'ren, a son who died in infancy, and two daughters:
Janie Johnston, who nwarried Hepburn Saunders and Sue
Jo^hnston,, who married David G. Ohapman.
James Hamson Johrw^tJon is living on the old Johnston
place near Loudon. He married Mary Ann Kline and had
four childi*en: Mamie Johnston wiho diied unmarried.
Sallie Johnston (whio mteirried John C. Grifflss. junior, ana
has John C. GrifTiss, Third and James JohnsTon Griffiss).
Albert Sidney Johnston whto ds unmarried and Elizabeth
Johnston ( wno married Hugh McCl'ung Thomas, and has
Lucy Thomas and Charlie McGlung Thomas).
Jerome Von Albade Johnston is unmiarried and lives
in Macon.
William McEwen Jo^hnston married Llewellyn Reese
and has two children, Viola Johnston who married King-
man Moore und William McEwen Johnston, jainior.
Hannah Elizabeth Johnston married Almstead Mason
Oooke and has no children.
(8) William Johnston married Ann Maclyn. Their
children were: John Johnston, Campbell Jo>hnston and
Robert Johnston.
(9) Margaret Johnston married her cousin, Samuel
McMiWan Johnston. Their children were: Nancy Ann
Johnston (who married Z.Edwards), James Harvey
Johnston,' Ebenezer E. Johnston, Lucinda Jane Joihnston,
Jefferson Lafayette Johnston, Margaret Johnston, Esther
I. Johnston and had two sons who died in infancy. (See de-
scendants of Samuel McMillan Johnston).
(10) Jean Johnston married David Walker. They had
ten children, among others, William Walker, Francis
Walker and Eliza Walker.
211
Digitized by VjOOQIC
NOTABLE SOUTHERN FAMILIES
(s) William Johnston, son of Joseph Johnston and
Margapet Graham Johnston, who was bom 1800 and died
1864, 6«ed sixty-four, married Atone McClyn, bom 1805^
died 1869. They had six diiMren, namely: Robert Alex-
ander Johnston, Adaline JtJihnston, Fnands Garlyle John-
fiton, Jackson Graham Johnston, William Campbell John-
ston, and Columbus MoCivin Johnston.
Of the foregoing:
Robert Alexamdiep Johnston, first child of William John-
ston and Margaret Graliam Johnston, married three times
and' had children by his flrstt and second marriaces. He
married first, Vuity Turner ^nd they had eight <Aildren,
namely: Ann Johiiston, Hester Johnston, Susan Johnston,.
William Johnston, Frank Johnston, Columbus Johnston,
Belle Johnston, Nancy Johnston. Robert Alexander John-
ston, miaarrded second. Mrs. Loicy Jane Bean and they had
seven children, namely: Lyle Johnston, Ida Johnston, Lula
Johnston, Chferlie Johnston, MoUie Johnston, Oscar John-
ston and Ore Johnston. Robert Alexancler Johnston mar-
ried, third, Tabitlm A. Goodner ^md tlhey had no children.
Of the children of Robert Alexander Johnston by his first
Wife : Susan Johnston, married Henry Berger ana had nine
children, namely: Mary Berger, Lucy Berger, Nannie Ber-
ger, Clara Berger, Oscar Berger, George Berger, Fred Ber-
ger, and Frank Berger; William Johnston married Ellen
Pair and had four children, niamdy: Eugenia Johnston,
Samuel Johnston, Arthur Johnston and Horace Johnston^
Frank Johnston married Mdnerva Wolf land had six child-
ren, namely: Stella Johnston, James Johnston, Margaret
Johnston, OUie Johnston, Johnny Johnston and Abbey John-
ston; Columbus Johnston married Lelia Wolf awd had two
children, namely: Carl Johnston, land Burta Johnston,
Belle Johnston married Sim Harris and had seven children^
namely: Ida Harris, Robert Harris, Eula Harris, Hentie
Harris, Mary Harris and Jessie Harris; Nancy Johnston
married' James Everhart, and had five children, namely:
Clarence Everhart, Unity Everhart, Ruth Everhart. Robert
Everfiart, and Willie Everhart. Of the chdl(fren of Robert
Alexander Johnjston by his second wlife: Lyle Johnston
married Eugenia Hawk and had 'two children, namely :
Maurice Johnston and Eugene Johnston; Ida Johnston
married Champ Ramsey, and had ten children, namely:
Ora Ramsey, John Ramsey, Lillian Ramsey, Nannie Ram-
sey, Thomas Ramsey, McKinley Ramsey, George Ramsey,
Perry Ramsey, Robert Ramsey, and Mary Ramsey; Charles
212
Digitized by
Google
JOHNSTON
John&ton married Sarepta Suns, and had four children,
noimely: Oate Johniston, Willie Johnston, Myrtle Johnston,
and Victor Johnson, Moliie Jo»hnston marri^ William
Niaithanharger and had two children Clay Nathanbarger
and Ora Nalthanbarger; OBoar Johnston married Burta
Mai^tin and) had three cfhildren, namely : Robert Johnston,
Lyle Johnston and Oscar Johnston, junior; Om Johnston
mai-ried Seanaiel Bean, junior, arid had no children.
Adeline Johnston, second child of William Johnston
and Margaret Graham Johnston married A. W. Ford.
Francis Qarlyle Johnston, third child of William John-
ston and Margaret Graham Johnston, was born December
22, 1829. He married Mary Kathenine MacPhearson, born
February 10, 1837, died' October 30, 1851. They had five
children, namely: William IJackson Johnston, John Mac-
Phearson Johnston, Robert Samuel Johhston, Charles Frank-
lin, Johnston, and Frances Henry Johnston. Of these, Wil-
liam Jackson Johnston married Harriett Hunter amcl had
five children, namely: Frederick Johnston, Margaret John-
ston, Arthur Johnston, Augusta Johnston and Robert John-
stlon. Robert Sanifuel Johnston, married three times and
hfed oMiidren by each marriage. He married first, Elizabeth
Karr and had wree children, namely : Mary Johnston, John
Johnston and Robert Johnston; he married second, Nannie
Westmoreland and had one child, namely: Francis Jeffiie
Johnston; he married" third, Martha Ann Williams and had
one child, namely : Ruth Emily Johnsrton. Charles Frank-
lin Johnston married Nannie Stanfield 6uid had one child,
namely: Lula Johnston. Frances Henry Johndon marrieo
Emma Smtedling and had four children, namely: Clint
Johnston, Charlie Johnston and Clarence Johnston.
Jackson Graham Johnston, fourth childi of William
Johnston and Margaret Graham Johnston married Nancy
Ann Francisco.
William Ctoipbell Johnston, fifth child of William
Johnston and Margaret Graham Johnston married Nancy A.
Prater. They had twelve children, namely: James John-
ston, Samuel A. Johnston, Thomas N. Johnston, Sarah A,
Johnston, Francis C. Johnston, George G. Johnston, Alice
Johnston, Carrie Lea Johnston, J. W. Johnston, Addie John-
slton, Minnie V. Johnston, and Martha Johnston. Of these,
James H. Johnston married Fannie Julian and had seven
children, namely: Warren Johnston (who married
an ! had four ohiMren) Clifford Johnston (Who married
) Wheeler Johnston (who married Nora Jones and
213
Digitized by VjOOQIC
NOTABLE SOUTHERN FAMILIES
had Ihrw children), Myrtle JohnS'ton; Mack Johnston (who
nmrried Claude Johnston and had one child), and Julia
Johnston. Saraih A. Johnston married Anderson Barger
and had twelve childiren, namely: John Barker, William
lia-pger (who married and had one cnild), James
Barger, Thomas Barger, Bluoher Bcirger, Mollie Barger,
(who married Francisco and had one child), Leona
larger (who married Joseph Seaborn), Ida Barger (who
mamed Steele and has one child), Jessie Barger,
Bertie Barger, Sallie Barger, and Addie Barger; Francis
Johnston married Jennie Smalling and had four children,
naoiiely: Mae Johnsit)on (who married John A. Lee and has
one ohild^, Benjamin Johnston (who married Minnie
Rinehart and has three children), Thomas Lee Johnston
(who married Lucy Davis and has one child), and Pearl
Johnston. Alice Johnston married James Hetoi and had
eight children, namely: John Hielm (who n>arried Margaret
Allison and had three c^hildren), BjTon Helm, Lucy Helm
(who married Johnston and had one child), iFred
Hehn, Minnie Helm, Addie Helm, Mary Helm, and Douglas
Helm. Carrie Johnston married Horace Luttrell and had
thiHH* children, namely: Hugh Luttrell, iliavl Luttrell, and
Bernice Luttrell; J. W. JohnS'ton married Nannie Butts and
had four children, namely: Willie Johnston, Fae Johnston,
Addie Johnston, Mae Johnston and Ray Johnston.
Addie Johnston married John Brenizer and had two
children, namely: Morris Brenizer and Edison Brenizer,
Minnie V. Johnston married Andrew Moore and had three
children, namely: Earl Moore, Mack Moore and Cecil Moore.
Martha Adie Johnston married William Smalling and had
one child, Ira Smalling.
Digitized by
Google
KELTON
The Kellons are an ancient family in ScolJand. Many
references are given lo 'thorn in Scottish history. There the
name is pronomncedi witih the accent on the second syllable.
The land on which the new city of Edinburgh is built; is said
to belong tio the Kelton heirs. Mary Kelton married John
Glasselle, of the family who accompanied Mary, Oneeii of
Scots from Poictiers, on her return to her native land. The
Keltons early began to etmigrate to America, the lli*st
emigrant of that name rea<3iing Souhh Carolina between
1640 and 1645. Lake many other Scots, the Keltons aided
in colonizing Ireland. Some of tihese later came tt) .Xnierica
with the Ulster immigration. One of them, James Kellon
came from Ireland to Chester County, Pennsylvania, about
1735 and was the great-grandfather of General John Cun-
nigtiaim Kelton the soldier and author of a treatise on
military affairs, lliey came here in great numb'^n; for the
Census of 1790 gives twenty-one 'heads of families of this
naime in Massachusetts, four for Rhode Island, one for
Pennsylvania, two for North Carolina, and one for South
Carolina. Dr. Claude Kelton, who served six years in the
Hospital Corps of the U. S. Army, says that the records at
Washington show that the U. S. Army has had Kelton
recruits from nearly every state in the Union. Also that
the name has not been missing from the reeoi'l n single
year since 1776.
WILLIAM AND ELIZABETH KELTON
William Kelton was born September 26, 1753. His wife
Elizabeth was born March 8^ 1754. As to whether William
Kelton came direct from Edtaburgh, or was the son of the
emigrant from that place, has not been ascertained; but that
he and his wife Eliaabeth were in North Carolina, with a
large family and numerous slaves, is given in the Census
215
•Digitized by VjOOQIC
NOTABLE SOUTHERN FAMILIES
of 1780. Of William Kelton's Revolutionary record, nothing
definite is known, but that he was of Revolutionary timb^
a few scattered facts attest. He was Scotch-Presbylerian,
He is traditionally known to have Ixvri concern m1 wilh 'hf
Mecklinburg Declanalion of Indeijon^nce and I)*!- iiirs lo
the region w^here it was fnamed. His nani^ d'« ; s n« | np-
E3ar on the list of signers, probably because of hi? youth,
e dots appear as a member of Ihe Militia of Mi rgan Dis-
trict in the i>eriod immediately following the R*'V( lulion.
By way of Smith County, Tennessee, whero ho l»ad re-
sided for a short lime, William Kelton came lo RulherforS
County, Tennessee, and in 1801 purchased a largr tract of
land knoa\"n as "Blacl< Fox fiiunj) *. Black F«.x \v is ;i!i
Indian chief who formerly hunted and encampid at the
magnificent spring not far from the present eitr ( f Mur-
freesboro. The story is that Black Fox was pursu d lo tni.s
place, and rather than be caught by the soldjcrs, sprang
m*o the water and disappeared from sighll. The s^otdi' rs
believed him to be lost, but by an underground chnnnel. h »
came to surface again at Murfree's Spring, two an J (»n. •
half miles belo^\'. This Black Fox camp has (ifli^n boen
mentione'd in the history of Tennes^s.'c, iLs
unusually large spring being a land mark. Th<^ exp- dilion
of General Robertson, in 1792, sent one if its scouts rv,-r
the old trail from Nashville to Chattanooga, who rc^pcrted
that he "had been as far as Black Fox Gamp, wh -r » he had
seen the signs of a numerous army of Indians. Again in
1794, Major Orr's Expedition against the Greek and Ghero-
kees of the Lower Tow-n, ''marched to Black Fox's camp
and remained there for the night". The deed lo this tract
of land says that it was gi*antc»d by the Stale < f N( rlh
Oarolina to Thomias Harris, and that the said Th< mas Harris
of Mecklenburg County, North Carolinta, convoys In William
Kelton of Smith County, Tennessee, in 1801, the Black Fox
damp, a 'tract of 619 acres for six hunc?red dollars. The
witnesses were: L. Sullivan ^nd Alexander Shnin. It is of
interest to know that this deed w^s acknowl >dged bofore
Andrew Jackson, at that time one of the judg<s of the
**Supretfne Court of Law and Equity". William Kt'lton pur-
chassed my other l!ract« of land, owning fuialy m/uiy IJiou-
sand acres in this and oither parts of Tennessee.
Rutherford County, formerly includt^d in Davidson
and Williamson Counties, was organized by an act of the
General Assembly at Knoxville, October 25, 1803. The first
court met at the home of Thomas Rucker, January 3. ISOk
216
Digitized by
Google
KELTON
Of this court, William Kelton was one of. the first grajid-
juTjTtien. Murfreeeboro wfius founded in 1811^ but it was
noi until 1813 that elections were ordered to be held at
Murfroesboro ins^lead of Black Fox Gamip, sihowing thai
much of 'the colmtij^ business has been ti^ansacted al. Ih*^.
latter place.
A faanily story of the four sons of William going into
the woods to hew logs for the first Presbyterian Church is
sustained by the record of their mother, Elizabeth, being a
charier me^mber of the congregation. Tliere is now on the
original site a neat new brick building.
Hero, ihen, on a planialion of several thousand' acres
around this spring, from which the town of Murfreesboro
is now supplied with water, William and Elizabeth Kelton
established their l^irgo fomiliy. William Kel-.oi) bifd iii IS 13.
A chart now on file s/hows the division among his heirs of
the original holdings. This division was made October 10,
1816. Samuel Bigany, Moses Bellak and Sain Barber being
Wie trustees. This names the 'heirs as Archibald Sloan and
wife Agnes. John Sloan and wife Mary, Robert Kelton,
Samuel B. Kelton, Elizabellh Kelton, senior, James Kelton.
Elizabeth Kelton, junior, William, Alexander Larkej- ana
wife Margaret, these being the widow and eight children.
David, another child, died quite young, and was not living
at this time.
I. MARY KELTON
Marj' Kelton, daughter of William and Elizabeth Kelton
was born August, 1774. She married William Sloan.
II. ROBERT KELTON
Robert Kelton, oldest son of William and Elizabeth
Kelton was born May 6, 1776. He married while still in
Mecklenburg County, North Carolina, Rachel Jetton. This
name has been variously spelled Jeton, Gieton and Jelton,
the latter spelling is used in the first Oensfus of Niorth
Carolina (1790). He died in Rutherford County, Tennessee,
in 1826, intestate, and his brother William was appointed
administrator. His wife Rachel survived hijm a number of
years, certainly until 1844, as deeds signed by her at that
date are on record at Murfreesboro. Rcbert Kelton, probably
lived on fche southwest corner of the Black Fox Camp plan-
217
Digitized by VjOOQIC
NOTABLE SOUTHERN FAMILIES
lation, as that had been s^t aside for him in the division
his father's estate. Their children were:
A. William Pleasant, 1800.
B. Jackson, 1802.
G. Samaiel, 1805.
D. Emily, 1808.
E. Mairy, 1810.
F. Robert, 1812.
G. George and David, 1814.
H. Margaret, 1816.
I. James H., 1818.
Of these children:
A William Pleasant, son of Robert and Rachel Jetton
Kelton, was born in Mecklinburg Ooimly, Salisbury District,
North Carolina, »on January 11, 1800, being the only one
of the diildren wiho was born before fhey came to Tennes-
see. He was married in 1819 to Lucinda White, who was
born in Soaith Carolina in 1802. They left Rutherford
County and settled in Gibson County, Tennessee, some
liimo in the thirties. William Pleasant Kelton became
siheriff of Gibson County and at one time knew every man
in that county. He reared a large fa/mily and accumulated
a large fortune. He died in 1886. His wife, Lucinda, died
in 1875. Their children were:
1 Thomas Wfhite Kelton, of whose family a complete
account will be given below
2 Lavinia, married Abraham Penn.
3 Julia, married James Hill.
4 William, married Hester Rucker.
5 Elizabeth, married Jasper Hardy, and lives in Denver
with her daughter Mrs. Inez Hoover, w^ho has one daughter
Margaret.
Joseph, never married.
7 Frank, married Sarah Hardy. They had a daughter,
Elizabeth, Who married Mr. Finis White of Missouri. They
had also one or two sons.
8 Samuel, married Harriet Britton.
9 Mary, married F. P. Hill.
1 Thamas White Kelton, the oldest child of William Pleas-
ant and Lucinda White Kelton, was born August, 28, 1821.
He married Catherine Margaret GutJirie, daughter of John
and Minerva Wear Guthrie. John Guthrie came lli^t from
Glasgow to Richmond, Virginia, thence to Tennessee, where
he met Minerva, daughter of Colonel Samuel Wear, a full
account of wliose services can be fooind in the historj- of
218
Digitized by VjOOQIC
KELTON
the Weer family. Catherine Margaret Guthrie was born in
Greene Oounly, Tennessee, Jun-e 11, 1830, and died in Van
Buren, Arkansias, December 24, 1918. Thomas White
Kelton was educated at the old Bradley Academy, Mur-
freesboro, and at the Loiuisville Medical College. Tlit mar-
riage took place at Vernon, Hickman Gouiilv, Tonm^ssoe, on
March 12, 1848. After a »hort residence at Eaton Tennessee,
and at Jacksonjwrt, Arkansas, (he faimily removed with
their slaves to Mount Vernon, Missouri, where Dr. Kelton
practised' his profession for many years. He died there
October 28 1883. Their children were: (a) Eudora; ,(b)
William Pleasant; (c) Thomas White, junior; (d) Lucie
Belle; (e^ Richard Lee; (f) Martha Guthrie; (g) Charles
George; (h) Harry Clay; (i) Granger Latta; (j) Ona; (k)
Thaddeus White. Of these :
(a) Eiidora was born April 13, 1849 in Eaton JVnne.-seo
She was married) in 1872 to Dr. M. L. Gaiflier. They h.ii no
children. Her death occured in Aurora, Missouri, January
26, 1905.
(b) William Pleasant Kelton was born in Baton Ten-
nessee, November 18, 1851. He died in Mount Vernon,
Missouri, December 11, 1862.
(c) Thomas White, junior, was born September 1,
1853, in old Jacksonporl, Arkansas. He died in Oklahoma,
October 16, 1891, immarried.
(d) Luoile Belle Kelton was born October 10, 1858,
majrried Martin Franklin House Smeltzer on April 2b, 1877.
He was born May 26, 1853, in Middletown, in Ihe famous
and beautiful Maryland valley of that name. His family
were Swiss Lutherans and were among the early e«iiigrante
to this country. They live in Van Buren, Arkansas, where
Mr. Smeltzer established a fruit iMinch. Th(»ir children
are: (1) Homer Cecil Smeltzer, born A/ugust 28, 1878, a
fruit grower of Sapulpa, Oklahoma, who marricni in Van
Buren, Arkansas, Nov. i, 1905, Myra Orrick born in Ft
Worth, Texas, April 26, 1885, and has two children: Marion,
born May 18, 1912 and Franklin, born Mav 23,
1915. (2) Catherine, born July 27, 1882,' un-
married, (3) Edna, born August 22, 1887, married April 3,
1905, Earl Ward, who was born in Van Bairen, June 23,
1884, and has three children, Smellier, born February 14,
1906, Virginia, born July 1908, and Catherine born August
31, 1910; (4) Dora Smeltzer was born October 21, 1890, and
219
Digitized by VjOOQIC
NOTABLE SOUTHERN PAMIUES
was married April 25, 1911, io William Reynolds, who was
bom October 5, 1884, in Ft. Sanith, Arkansas. James R.
Reynolds, great-grondfather of Will Reynolds was one of
&ve defendiers of Fort McHenry in Ohesepeak Bay, wh 'n th«
British tried to lake it (1814). Francis Scott Key was on
board the British ship negotiating for an exchange of
prisoners and looking out on the defense of Fort MclL»nry
was inspiredl to write the *'Star Spangled Banner". Th^
Reynolds oame to America with Lord Baltimore.
(e) Richard Lee Kelton was born in Mount Vernon,
Missouri, October 18, 1860, marri-ed in Palmyra, Missouri,
in 1894, Jesse Lee. They have no children. He has lived in
Van Buivn Arkansas, for many yoars, and is a student of
literatur-e and art.
(f) Martha Gnj'lhrie K<^Lon, bom July 8, in Mouni
Vernon, Missiouii. She married in 1883 to- Geol^
Arthur MoGanse, a banker of Mount Vernon, who was bom
November 24t»h, 1860. He is of an old Scotch-Irish Presby-
terian family of Rhea County, Tennessee, who early emii-
grated to Mount Vernon and were its most prominent and
public spirilled citizen. Their childn ii ar*.
(1) William Keith, born May 10, 1885, marred J^une 1909 in
Jefferson City, Missouri, Eslelle Wagner, who was born
April 17, 1887, and has three children, William Keith,
Junior born September 21, 1910, .li'd March 29, 1913
Marjorie, bom in Springfi'eld, Missouri, August 7, 1912, and
George Arthur born in Dallas, Texas, famiai'v 15, 1915; (2)
Francis Marie McCanse, bom Decembt-:' (>, 1SS7, and died
unmarried Novettn^ber 22, 1920; (3) Catherine Bemice Mo-
Ganse, born December 25, 1889, married in Springfleld,
Missouri, November 16, 1910, Henderson Percy Maybeny
and has the following children: Martha Emma, born in
Quincy, Illinois, February 6, 1913, died April 21, 1913, Mary
Jane, born in Kansas City, Missouri, Novem'ber 3, 1916,
Thomas Henderson born September 6, 1921; (4) Caroline
Margaret McCanse, born May 22, 1893, married December
23, 1917, Leslie Roseberry Millsap, who served in the World
War; (5) Ohauncey Arthur McCanse, born August ^-^T, 1805,
served in the World War, and unmarried; (6) Martha Lois
McCanse, born June 30, 1895, unmarried.
(g) Oharles George Kelton was born Febmary 23, 1867,
died August 9, 1868.
(h) Harry Clay Kelton was born March 23, 1868, died
July 19, 1916. He married Hattie Ferguson on July 15, 1899
220
Digitized by VjOOQIC
KELTON
at Norman, Oklahomas. They hfad one son, Williajn Paul,
wiho W61S bom October 28, 1902 and is now a medical
stirdent in the University of Oklahoma.
(i) Granger Lalta Kelton born Sept. 16, 1870. During
the Spanish American War he volunteered' and served in
the ITth Battery Field Artillery, George P. Galting, Captain
A. G. and was transfeiredi to Hospital Gorps.
(J) Ona KeHtooi was bom September 13, 1872 died
May 4, 1874.
(k) Thadideus White, youngest son of Thomas White
Kelton bom Jan.,4, 1875, married Nora WMImore, by
whom he had a son Haroldf Lee, bom May 24, 1899 and
who volunteered for service in %e Navy d*uring
the World War. Dr. Tlha<ldeftis Kellton married Dec-
ember 24, 1920, Mrs Lillian Anderson (Miss Runyon)
a granddalughter of tbe first American AmbassadDr io
Germany, Theodore Rnnyon of New Jersey.
B. Jackson, son of Robert and Rachel Jetton Kelton was
bom in 1802.
C. Samuel, son of Robert and Rachfel Jetton Kelton >va3
bom near Fox Gamp RuiJherford) Gounty, Tennossoe
He marriedi twice. His first wife was Margaret G. White ^
to whom he was married June 17, 1829. They had four
oihildren, Minerva, Braxfehaw, Isabella-, and Martha. His
wife died February 16, 1838. He married a second time to
Margaret Shepherd, F-abrtiary 18, 1839 and ihad three child-
ren, Mary Ann, Rachel and Saatmiel T. ' His second wife
died December 16, 1889 and he died) April 9, 1891, aged 86
years, one month and 26 days. His children were:
1 Minerva Kelton, oldest child of Samaiel and Margaret
White Kelton, was born Angust 22, 1830. She was married
January 30, 1849 to Galvin G. Lowe, who served dn the Gon-
federate Army in the War Between thie Slates. To this
union were born eight <5hildren : Samuel, Elizabeth, Sarah,
Wesley, Marfflia, Margaret and 'Galvin, junior. Minerva
KeHon Lowe died April 14, 1863.
2 Brarishaw Kelton was bom January 1833 and died
August 11, 1842.
3 Isabella Kelton was born December 11, 1834, and
married September 5, 1854, Jackson Prater^ who had served
in the Mexican War. They had ten children: Thomas,
Robert, Minerva, Gharley, James, Mattie, Alice, Hattie, Ern-
est and Radhel. This family removed to the State of Texas,
221
Digitized by VjOOQIC
NOTABLE SOUTHERN FAMILIES
where Isabella Kelton Prater died and her children married
and reared families.
4 Martha Kelton was born Sepliember 12, 1837, and was
married on Septemi)er 14Hh, to Walter Lowe and had
four children: Margaret, Calvin, William and James.
Martha Kelton Lowe is still living, having reached the ad-
vanced age of 84 years.
5 Mary Ann Kelton, daughter of Samuel Kelton and (his
second wife, Mairgaret Shepherd, was born July 24, 1845
and married December 20, 1860, to Sattnuel Fox, who served
as a Confederate soldier. They had tftiree children, Bettie,
Maggie and Samiuel T. There are now eleven grandchildren
Awd thirty-four great grandchildren.
6 Rachel Kelton was born October 4, 1846 and was
married January 20, 1869 to James Y. Lowe, a soldier in the
Soufthern Army in the War Between the States. They had
two children : Sammie S. Lowe and William Lowe.
7 Samaiel T. Kelton was bom July 15, 1850 and was
married to Mai'v F. Lowe, February 5, 1871 and had one
child, William S. Kelton.
There are many descendants of Samuel Kelton living in
different states. Theiir number would be in the hundreds
if it had been p)ossible 1o get records of all of them. Tiiree
6(ms-in-laws were soldiers in the War Between the Slates,
and one. Jack Parfer, served' in the Mexican War. He also
bad two great grandsons. Kirk Lowe and Elam Kelton to
serve in the World War. He has tlhree chilcfren now living,
Martha Kelton Lowe, aged 84 years, Mary Ann Kellon, aged
76 years and Samuel T. Kelton, aged 72 years.
There is a record of a William Kelton, who was made a
prisoner in the War Between the States, and while in
prison in Erie Counly, Ohio, made a will, which was pro-
bated in Rutheirford County, October 4, 1864, in which he
mentions wife Nancy and his son, Andrew. It is not known
just what relationship he bore to the first William Kelton.
D. Emily, daughter of Robert and Rachel Jetton Kelton,
was born near Murfreesboro, Tennessee, February 3, 1808.
Stife diedi September 7, 1884. She married William Clark
who was bom in North Carolina Oct. '?8, i80i-. He di^d
October 23, 1880, Their children were:
1 Rachel.
2 James A., born September 13, 1837.
3 Robert Newton.
4 Sarah E.
5 William G.
ooo
Digitized by
Google
KELTON
6 John Thomas.
7 Margaret Jane
8 Mary E.
9 Melissa Tennessee.
10 Susan Gassie.
Of these children:
1 Rachel Clark was bom August 9, 1835, and married
in 1857, Moses Woodfin, wiho was born March 8, 1829 and
died January 30, 1908. Their children were: White Wood-
fin, who was an elder in Hhe Presbyterian Church, and
Moses Woodfin, junior, who was an elder in the Cumber-
land Presbyterian Church.
2 James A.
3 Robert Newlon was born August 24, 1839. He was
in the 45th Regiment of Tennessee Infantry, and was killed
at the battle of Missioniary Ridge in 1863.
4 Sarah E. was born Sept^anber 22, 1841 and died
December 22, 1883.
5 William G. was born February 6, 1844 and was in
the same Regiment as his brother Newton, and was killed
in the same batlle.
6 James Thomas born February 3, 1846 and 'died
August 4, 1860.
7 Margaret Jane, born August 1, 1849, died November
1, 1913.
8 Mary E. Clark was born Mardh 11, 1851 and married
at Liberty Gap, by Ihe Elevenend Miller on 8o[M'ember 5^ 1840
Henry L. Woodfin, born December 5, 1840. Their children
are: (a) John T. Woodfin, born December 13, 1867, mar-
ried in 1895 Beulah Jacobs and h-ad Rice Woodfin j bom
October 10, 1897 at Christiana; Mary Clark Woodfiin, born
Aug'ust 19, 1900 at Murf reesboro ; John, junior, born
Augiist 23, 1903 at Murfreesbaro ; James Collins born De-
cem*b(^r26, 1909, at Murfreiesboro ; (b) Cicoro N bom yVugnst
27, 1871, married December 1893, Lida G. Sians, land had one
child f^va Flerticher born Januarj^ 9, 1901 at Christaira,
Tenne^ee. They now residfe in NasJiville, where Cicero N.
W'oodfin is an insurance man; (c) Lizzie L., bom November
9, 1874 and married And-rew Miller, who was born in Sep-
tember 1874. Their children -are: Evelyn, born November
1905; Tracy, born October 1908; (d) Susan E., born Decem-
ber 8, 1876, and married May 21, 1896, Chiarlies B. Marlin.
Their children are: Hugh Robert, born August 31, 1897;
Welburn, born August 24, 1900; Roy Benton, born March
10, 1906; Charles, junior, born June 1, 1909; (e) William
223
Digitized by
Google
NOTABLE SOUTHERN FAMILIES
Moses, bom Deoemiber 28, 1878. a Prebylerian minister in
Pitt8iburg»h, Penmaylvania; (f) Eva S., born March 13, 1884
aflfid married Decerobw 25, 19i4, Jiames Miller and tiiey had
one child, James WoodlQn Miller, born January 29, 1916.
9 Melissa Tennessee was bom February 22, 1855 and
married Harvey Arnold who was bom in 1837.
10 Suean Cassie was bom June 5, 1859, married 1S8i
Buck Arnald, and died in 1917.
E. Mary, daughter of Robert and Rachel Jetton Kellon,
married Robert Brothers.
F. Robert Kelton, the second, son of Robert and Rachel,
was bom in 1812. About 1838 he nUarried Sarah Clark and
had, Mary Jane, bom in 1839; Eliza'beh bornin 1841, and
Eliza, bom in 1844. Robert's wife died in 1858. He married
Nancy Clark, by w!hom he had Reuben Grady Kelfon, nLo
was born April 21, 1860. The daughter Elizabeth, bom
1841, married' Harvey Clark in 1859. who was bom in De-
cember 1839, and they had the following children: (a)
Sarah Frances, bom Miay 9, 1860, d6ed February 16, 1913.
She mamed Mt. Beavers, who died December 16, 1912;
(b) William Riley, bom October 3, 1868; (c) Eliza Crr^n,
born September 1, 1871; («d) Charley H., bom July 1, 1874;
(e) Molly, born August 8. 1877. Reuben Grady Kelton born
1860, married Maggie Clark in 1886. He is now a sub-
stantial farmer of RuKherford' 'County, Tennessee, and has
several children: (a) Robert James, born September 14,
1887, who married Deul6th Taylor in December, 1914; (b)
William B., bom October 2, 1889, who seirvod in the Worid
War; (c) Charles C, bom October 25 1891, who also served
overseas and died of pneumonia in Prance; (d) Frank E.,
born December 1893, married Lela Earles in 1916; (e)
Nancy A., born March 9, 1895; (f) Reuben Graidy, junior,
born October 2, 1897, married AJice Thomas in December
1920.
G. George and David, twins of Robert cuid Rach^^l
Kelton, were bom in 1814. George married Sallie Clark.
David married and went to Arkansas, but we have no
record of his family. It is known, however, that he lived to
a good old age.
H. Margaret, diaughter of Robert and Rachel Jell on
Kelton, was bom in 1816. She (married William &tevens( )).
Their children were: John, who married a Miss Adk)ck;
Robert, Newton, Sis and Tohe, who married Miss Summws.
I. James H. Kelton, youngest son of Robert end Rachel
Jetton Kelton, was born October 21, 1818. He married
224
Digitized by VjOOQIC
KELTON
Martha Jane Yardley, who was bom June 15, 1824, dmighter
of Captain Thomas Yardley, who was in Jackson's Army
at the Battle of New Orleans. James H. Kelton was in the
anmy that look the Indians from Tennessee to the Indian
Tenritory. He and his wife had seven children, namely:
1 John Thomas.
2 Sarah Elizabeth.
3 Alice Jane.
4 Mary Louise.
5 William James.
6 Margaret Tennessee.
7 MatUe J.
Of the foregoing:
John Thomas was lyorn July 1, 1841, is now nearly eighty
He served in the War Between the S'tiates as a member of
{Company E, 23rd Tennessee Infantry, C. S. A., under Captain
W. S. Low^. He married Amanda E. Prater,
Their children are: (a) Mollie, who was born
March 3, 1866 and died August 20, 1866; (b) William
T., born August 10, 1867 and married Mrs. Amanda Stam-
mer, December 18, 1870; (d) Octa, born December 31, 1871,
died Octo'ber 8, 1874; (e) Etta Atrice, born March 31, 1875
and is unmarried; (f) Oharles Ephraim Kelton was born
July 31, 1877, was married December 11, 1911 to Lula
Ridley, who was born September 3, 1884. Their children
are: Samuel Weakley Kelton, born January 7, 1913;
John Knox Kelton, born Apiril 24, 1914; Robert Ridley and
William Thomas were twins born March 5, 1917, William
d-ied April 1, 1917; Sarah Elizabefh was bom April 29, 1920.
(g) Elizabeth Kelton was born July 12, 1884. She married
D^H^ember 3, 1907, Samoiel Pearson and' lives in Murfrees-
boro. Their childiren are : James Franklin, born November
1, 1908, Minnie Jane, w1io was born June 12, 1909; Willie
I^wis, born March 17, 1913.
2 Sarah Elizabeth, daughter of James H. and Martha
Jane Kelton, was bom March 15, 1845. She married Mr.
Prater, by whom she had children as follows : (1) Ida, born
September 25, 1867, married the Reverend G. A. McNabb,
a Baptist preacher, and had one son, S. B. McNabb; (b)
W. F. Prater, born May 10, 1869; (c) Janie Prater, maTTied
S. E. Pearson; (d) Edward Prater; (e) Gelia Prater.
3 Alice Jane, daugihter of Jaimes and Martha Jane
Kelton, was born July 26, 1847. She married William
225
Digitized by VjOOQIC
NOTABLE SOUTHERN FAMILIES
Manfcin, j'unior. They had one child, Lily, bcxm January
25, 1870, who married July 18, 1887, G. F. Prater, and had
three sons, William Gregg, married Molly Todd and had
Shree small children; Leslie m-arried a young lady from
Ohio. He was second: Sergeant of his company in the
World War. G. F. Prater, junior, was bom February 8,
1894, married Helen Herrell on December 17, 1919.
4 Mary Louisa, daugh<ler of James and Martha Jane
Kelton, was born May 20, 1849.
5 William James Kelton, son of James H. and Martha
Jane Kelton, was born August 19, 1853. Hfe mattried
November 20, 1895 Mollie Frizzel, born 1872. He m a sub-
flltantial farmer and lives on or near the old Black Fox
Camp plantation. ITie^ir dhiWren are: (1) Lorenzo, born
March 3, 1897. He serve'd in fche World War. (b) Lulu Lee,
born June 25, 1899, died July 10, 1900. (c) Bemice Pauline,
born August 25, 1901. (d) Mar>' Aileen, born May 23, 1904.
(e) Williain Rovce born l);cpniber 3, 1905 ( died March 30,
1917).
6 Margarett Tennessee Kelton. daughter of James and
Martha Jane Kelton, was born June 19, 1855. She married
T. L. Webb, whose family wore aimoug those who first
gettled RuthelrfoTd County. He was born in 1849. They
Hve in sight of their old place. Their children are: (a)
Leiia Agnes, born December 29, 1874, diedi in infancy, (b)
James Robert, born January 28, 1877, married Kate John-
ston and has Kirk, Hall and Smith, (c) Mattie Myrtle Webb
was born February 26, 1879 and married Butriel Johnston;
children are Rolley, Thomas Webb, junior. Marguerite,
Lyia Bell, B. F., Elizabeth and* Jo. (d) Joseph William wa«
born September 13, 1881 and married Lillian Wallace. No
issue, (e) Bessie Lee Webb was born December 31, 1883,
married Clayton Bowen. Their children were: Orman,
J. T.. Elizabeth and Christine, (f) Newton Thomas Webb
was born November 8, 1886, and marritxl Frances Buchan-
an, daug'hter of Ex-Go\^*rnor J. P. Buchanan.
7 Maitie J. Kelton, daughter of Jamrs H. and Martha
Jane Kelton, was bom October 6, 1865.
III. AGNES KELTON
Agnes Kelton, daughter of William and Elizabeth
Kelton was born January 20, 1776. She married Archibald
Sloan.
IV. WILLIAM KELTON
William Kelton ,second, son of William and Elizabeth
226
Digitized by
Google
KELTON
Kelton, was born July 12,, 1718. He died October 23, 1866.
His wife's name was Minerva. He had several children.
Little is known of his life. Some time before the War
Between the States, he left Fkiiherford Oounty, Tennessee,
and' settled in the moi'e mountainous county of Warren.
There, diuring the War, Mr. John Thiomas Kelton, a private
in ihe Oonfederale service, found himself in front of a targe
brick residence, the owner of which, on hearing the name
of Kelton, introduced himself, and it was established that
he was William, ihe great uncle of the soldier. The old
man asked bhe young private into his house and
pointed ooit an oil painting with the remark that it was the
work of a son. Tnis son, we tihink, becaime a resident of
Philadelphia and had a son who lives in New York City.
The Tennessee relatives recall Robert, Williato and Wilson
as the names of his sons, the last probahly being the grand-
father of Miss Winifred Kelton, a teacher of Satan ta,
Kansas.
V. DAVID KELTON
David Kelton, son of William and Elizabeth Kelton, was
bom December 15, 1783. He died yoomg.
VI. ELIZABETH KELTON
Elizabeth Kelton, daughter of William and Elizabeth
Kelton was born December 7, 1785.
VII. JAMES KELTON
Jaaues Kelton, son of William and Elizabeth Kelton was
boi'n in 1788, and married Elizabeth White, who was bora
in 1790, of a Presbyterian family of Soulh Carolina and a
kinswoman of the Luoinda White who married William
Pleasant Kelton. They lived in Rutherford County and had
the following children :
A. Margaret, born in 1818, manned 0. G. Peay.
B. Martha, born 1820, me-rried William Vaughn.
0. V^^lliam, bom 1822, died in 1844 or 1846.
D. Matilda, born 1824, married Jenkins McGaul.
E. Mary, born 1826, married William Henry.
F. Thomas Eggleton, born 1829 and -married Sarah E.
Dunn, who was born in 1826. He died in 1880. Their
children were: 1, Elizabeth, born 1848, married Andrew
McGlendon. Th(»y live in VVilliam'Son County, Texas. 2
James T. Kelton, born 1850, married (1) Haltie White Bos-
tick and had by 'her one daughter, Edna, who married Mr.
227
Digitized by VjOOQIC
NOTABLE SOUTHERN FAMILIES
de Jarnetle and lives in Atlanta, Georgia, amJ has two sons,
William who lives in Jacksonville, Florida, and Dr. Claude
M., lives in Kentucky, is married and has Ave children. (3)
Williaim Raansey, of Bastrop County, Texas, bolm August
14, 1851, married Amanda Oomer, who was born in Tennes-
see in 1858, and has; (a) Lillian Belle Kelton, born Decem-
ber 4, 1876, married Oteiide Thomas Wynn, who died in
1921, and has five children: Claudine Elizabeth, born Feb'
ruary 28, 1900, Doris Amanda, born July 11, 1902, Thomas
Kellon, born June 27, 1904, Lillian Belle, bom October 2,
1906, and William RMnsey, boirn October 5, 1913; (b) John
Samluel married Susanna Hickerson. 4 Harvey, born 1863,
is unmarried and lives in Texas. (5) John Samuel, born in
1865 married Mary Comer of Tennessee. (6) Helen Grafton
Kelton, born January 29, 1872 at Vervilla, Tennessee, mar-
ried D. B. Spillar on Decembe'r 23, 1891. They live in Austin
Texas and have fhe following children: (a) Homer Keltjn
born March 24, 1893; (h) Beulah Roseland', born June 23,
1894; (c) Willis Robinson, born May 31, 1897; (d) Thomas
Bascom, born A|)ril 1. 1901 ; (e) Olive Elizabeth, bom March
13, 1903; (f) Kelley \A'ilsoii, born March 10, 1906; (g) John
Harvey, born May 10, 1907; (h) Howard Willard, born
Septembe'r 25, 1910.
G. Nancy, daughter of James and Elizabeth Kelton, was
born in 1831, and married G. G. Peay after the death of her
sister, Margaret.
H. Elizabeth, daughter of James and Elizaibelh Kelton
was born in 1833 -and married 'Ck)lonel James Goode.
I. Paulina, born in 1835 and married Samuel Briggs.
J. Sarah, daughter of James and Elizabeth Kelton was
born in 1837, and married Samiiel Burgess and had? child-
ten: Sammie, who married Charles E. Rhodes; Matildfi
who married a McCaul; Thomas and James.
K. Justine was born in 1839 and married Dr. Dill.
L. Amanda, diaaighter of James and Elizabeth Kelton
was born in 1841, andmamed John Frost.
M. James Peay Kelton, s-on of James and Elizabeth
Kelton was born in 1844 and died in 1910. His parents died
when he was three years old, and his unole, James Peay
raised him. He was married December 8, 1868 in Tennessee
to Nellie Games, who was born in 1848, the daughter of
William and Eliza)beth Games. Their children are: 1
Leslie Eugene Kelton, a physician of Corsicana, Texas, who
married Emma Gray and had Leslie Eugene, junior, Philip,
David and Elizabe'lh; 2 Herschell, who died in infancy. 3
228
Digitized by VjOOQIC
KELTON
Alva Lee Kellon, who is connected with a wholesale dmg
company and lives in Dallas, Texas. He married Lula Rice
of Frost, Texas, and has bwo daughters, Mona Ruth, born
January 1, 1901, and Nettie Rebecca, bom August 24, 1902.
These girls are sttudents at WdllifiunsbuTg, Virginia, in
William and Mary College. 4 Walter, a physician, ummar-
ried, lives in Seattle, Washington. 5 Horace Almanezer,
married Ekfith Bennett of Greenville, Texas, in 1903. They
live in San Antonio, where he is in the real estate business.
Their children are: E)dward OaTnes, born in 1912; Harry
Benne-t't, boirn January, 1916; Mary Anette, born Januin- d,
1921 ; 6 William White Kelton, married Stella Ricketts.
They live in San Antonio. Their children are : William
White, juni^or, born in 1913, Hugh Ricketts born 1914,
Kafcherine. bom 1915. 7 Myrte Kelton married David W.
Lowe ana lives in Roswell, New Mexico. They have no
children. 8 lillie Kelton married Charles E. Eirickson of
Seattle, Washington, and has one child, Elizabeth, born
1921.
VIII. SAMUEL KELTON
Samuel Kelton, son of William and Elizabeth Kelton,
was born in 1791 and married Elizabeth Manley in 1815. All
her family were massacred by the Indians, while she was
away from home. Afterwards she was reared by Jame6
Montgomery. They have five children :
A. Mary.
B. Elizabeth.
C. Jane.
D. William.
E. James Leander.
Of the fcregoing;
A. Mary Kelton married Anderson Ott and had a son,
Captain William Ott of the Confederate Army. He died in
1919.
B. Elizabeth married Willieun Olark. They went to
Texas about 1850.
0. Jane Kelton, after fthe early death of her sister Mary,
became the second wife of Andenson Ott and had : Robert,
Delesfca, Erskine, Rosa, Laura and Callie.
D. William Kelton mfarried Ann Rowland, 1848 and
went to Mississippi. Their oldest son, born about 1850 was
named Granville.
E. James Leander, born about 1824, married Eugenia
229 . ^
Digitized by VjOOQIC
NOTABLE SOUTHERN FAMILIES
McKnighl, -diaughiler of Major David McKiiiglht, Deceaii'ber
10, 1844. They had six children: Mary, Sanah, Janie,
Samuel T., Adolphus A., and James E.
1 Mary, born in 1846, unarried W. L. Lewis in 1863.
They had no children.
2 Sara)h, who was born in 1850 and married Michael
Lawrence, had one child Elizabeth, and died in 1873.
3 Janie Lived until maturity and died unmarried.
4 Sajimel T. was born in 1847, married about 1877, ^
Martha Lawrence, who died in 1914. He died in 1915. Their
children were: Ged-rge, James, Henry, William, Clyde,
Rebecca, Mary end Lola.
5 Adolphus A., who was born in 1852, was married
three fri-mes. He married (1) in 1869, Mary Eterker and had
one child (a) Dr. James C, who /was barn July 4, 1870
and married December 19, 1894 Elizabeth Harris. They
live at' Lascassas, Tennessee, and have the fallowing child-
ren: Marcella, bom October 10, 1895, married Clyde Jen-
nings in 1914 and has one chiM, Clyde Stacy, junior; Mary
Ruth, Katherine, Richard A., born December 17, 1900 and
married Betsy Nix on August 10, 1921. Mary Barker Kelton
died in 1872. Adolphus A., married (2) Sallie A. Barker,
sister to Mary, and had by her three children: (a) William,
died in infancy; (b) Florence, born in 1874, imarried W. A.
Jordan in 1891. They had eight boys and one girl and
live at Centertown, Tennessee, (c) Lillie J. married Prof.
Homer Knox in 1901. She died in a few months without
issue. Sarah Barker Kelton died in 1878, and in 1900
Adolphus A. was married to (3) Mattie F. Crockett who 'S
now living. They had three girls and one boy: (a) Nettie,
born in 1881, married G. C. Smolherman in 1905. They had
two bays, Fred and Cecil and live in Murfreesboro. (b)
Bessie, bam in 1884, married E. L. Crockett in 1904 and had
William, Edfwin, James and Elizafbeth. They live near
Murf reesboro ; (c) Matlie Lou, was born 1893 and married
0. B. Pemberton in 1909 and has : Neal, Clarence, Allen and
Lorena. They live in Rossville, Georgia; (d) Robert H. who
was bom in 1886, married Nannie McGrew in 1920 and lives
in Murf reesboro, Tennessee. He served for two years on the
battlefields of France.
6 James E., lived until maturity and died unmarried.
7 Janie, died young.
IX. MARGARET KELTON
Margaret Kelton, daughter of William and Elizabeth
Kelton married Alexander Lackey.
230
Digitized by VjOOQIC
MAGILL
In Ih(» year 1907 thei*e issued from Mftgill Publishing
Conipauy, of Richmond, Virginia, "The Magill Family
Record," the author being Robert M. Magill, of Maryville,
Tennessee. It is, as told on the explanatory page, "The com-
pleie record of d-escendants of James Magill, a native of
Virginia, Revolutionary soldier, and pioneer in Jhe settle-
ment of Tennessee''.
Since the paternal faffiiily of the writer has more than
once 'crossed hands" with members of the Magill faimily
at the marriage altar and becaiuise of ability to ad(d a few
leaves to Ihe Magill Family Record, the WTiter has compiled
the following sketch.
Origin of the Magill Family
The name Robert is legion among the Magill families of
America. Th^e first Robert, so far as is known, was "ye Sir
Robert Magill of the Isle of M-ull," off the coast of Scotland,
who, April 19, 1651, was knighted by Oharles II for "heroic
action" in assisting the said Oharles to effect his escape
fr(mi the Army of the Covenanters. Acoording to tradition
Robert Magill hid the King in the forests of Scotland and
provided him with wine and bread during his exile. Thus
a jug and a loaf of bread 'are said to have formed a part of
the escutcheon of some of the early families of Magills.
Besides being created Viscount of . Oxingfondl, Robert
Makgill received a large estate in Tullycairn, Ireland. Here
he established a faanily seat — and from 'there caime his de-
scendants to America. Prior to the Revolutionary War,
families of Makgills had been planted' in Connecticut^
Pennsylvania and Virginia. These families were closely
relatedl, and were possibly descended from CJharles, a son of
Sir Robert, since the name Charles seems to have been a
favorite one in all branches of the different families.
231
Digitized by
Google
NOTABLE SOUTHERN FAMILIES
When coming to America lihe Makgills dropped the "k"
and picked up a '*c". The Revolutionary- and pioneer
families spelled the name McGill, and this spelling is ad-
hered to by many families today. The present "Magill' was
a natural corruplion.
The Pennsylvania McGills
The fust two emigrants are helievodi to have been
brifthers, Charles and William, who emigrated to Pejmsyl-
vania probably to that pari Jiow lying within the Maryland
boundary.
Gh-arles McGill a Liemtenanl in the (colonial Mililia fr(^m
"y^^ Susquehank" from 1742 lui'lil 1748.
In 1705 Oharles McGill settl/d in (Cumberland (Counly,
Pennsylvania. This is the same year in which another
CSiarles is said to have come froni Ireland and settled in
Connecticut. Whether Ihe latler Gh-arles first settled in
in Pennsylvania and! lale-r in Connecticut can only be con-
jectured. The Cumberland County family is thought to
have been foiunded by the first Charles, Lieutenant of
Militia.
Charles' wife was probably named Sarah, and the fol-
lowing were his children:
Jajmes McGill, who 'marrifd) fii^t Elizab(»Hi Johnson.
17()4, and married second Esther Black, 1766.
John McGill, who married Mairy Winston, 1765.
Sarah McGill, who •marri(»d George P]ly, 1765.
Robert McGill, who married Sarah Dunlay, 17()5.
Another theory which cannot be overl(x>ked is that
William McGilh brother of Gharles McGill (Lieutenant),
who emigrated from Pennsylvania to Virginia about 1742,
only meputionj* children, William McGill, John McGill and
Elizabeth McGill, in his will and probably 'had otiher child-
pen in Pennsylvania. Alexander Hamilton, South Cnrolina
Revolutionarj' hero and statesman, married Jane McGill in
Riockingham County, Virginia, and emigrat^^d to South
Carolina abou't 1765. She was probaibly a granddaughter
of William McGill, the emigrant, and possibly born in
Pennsylvania.
The Pennsylvania family was not large at any time
prior to ibe Revolution, and it could easily have been de-
fict^nded from William McGill, the emigrant. In this case it
is not probable that 'Charles McGill, the brother, left amy
issue.
However, it is evidient that the Cumberland County
23^
Digitized by
Google
MAGILL
family had Charles McGill as a progenitor, whether son of
Qharles or son of William.
Charles, probably a brother of James and Jo»hn (whose
marriages are recorded), resided in Cumberland County in
1865, Charles, probably a son, and Hugh resided in the same
township. John, William and' the Widtow McGill in 1781
were living in Bucks County, Pennsylvania. John was a
Revohitionary sol-dier.
WILLIAM McGILL THE FIRST
Of Rockingham County, Virginia.
William McGill, presuonably a grandson of Sir Robert
Makgill, of Tulycaim, Ireland, and eiliher brother or father
of LiiHi tenant Charles McGill, of the Provincial Militia of
Pennsylvania, settled' in Rockingham 'Oounty, Virginia,
while it was yet a part of Augusta County, about the time
that so many of the Scotch-Irish families from the Cumber-
land Valley of Pennsylvania were filling up the Bordoii and
other grants on the Virginia frontier.
William McGill died in Virginia in 1749. He left a
widow, Margaret, a second wife, formerly the "Widow
Gass'' (Glass), by whom he had no children. The children
by the first wife as mentioned in his will were John, James,
William an^d Elizabeth.
The Magill record' states that the n-ame of John McGilJ
has been foimd attached to a demand for the militia com-
panies of Augusta County, Virginia, 1776, "That all re-
ligious denominafions be given equal liberties without
preference of pre-eminence".
In his will William leaves John "a mare and ye brown
oole (coat)"; William inheo^its his father's "white cote" and
"half of the household plenishings," and shares with James
an equal division of the lands. He is requested to spend
the winter on the plantation, retaining there, with his own
caltle, the stock of his step-mother and sister, Elizabeth.
Whether because of some domestic disagreement or be-
cause possessed of indei>endent means or independence of
disposition, w'hen the will was probated the widow, Mar-
garet Gass McGill, appeared in court and refused to accept
any legacy wliatever from the estate.
Other McGill Emigrants — John, Arthur and Charles,
Grandsons of Sir Robert McGill.
Near the year 1766 the above mentioned brothers emi-
grated from County Down, Irelartd. Charles and Arthojr
233
Digitized by VjOOQIC
NOTABLE SOUTHERN FAMIUES
are both said to have located in Middletown, Oonnecticul.
John, a lawyer of some note prior to the Revolution, settled
near Winchester, Virginia. Ho was a pronounced! RoyaliM.
Little else is known concerning him except that he was the
fathier of Colonel Charles MoGll, of >he Patriot Army, from
whom are descemded many distinguished Virginia and
other Southern families.
Families Who Trace Descent From the Connecticut
Emigrants
Through correspondence with the Honorable Henry
L. Messieur, at that time Assistant Collector of Ports at St.
Johns, Nova Scotiia, it was learned that the family to which
ihis mother belonged and which has many representatives,
not only in Canada, but in many of our Western states, was
^descended from one McGill, who married Elisabeth Denny
and resided in New Haven, Connecticut. Elisabeth Denny
outlived' her husband, dying in 1806. The Denny family is
an old and well-known Colonial family, claiming as forbear
Sir Ainthony Denny, the personal medical attendant of
Henry VHI. The Dennys seem also to have claimed favor
with Charles IT, since the Canadian family possess a cup
with the Denny "arms" engraved upon it, presented to
Charles Denny by this monarch.
A daughter of Elizabeth Denny McGill, Sarah by name,
married a Bermaida merchant, John Dunsoomb by name,
and removed to Newfoundlan-d. Sarah look with her her
youngest brother, evidently an orphan, named William.
This Willam founded the Canadian family of Magills.
There is a tradition in the family of the Revf^rend
Mathew Ma^ill, who married Lucinda Merwyn in Parish
Church, Ireland", and emigrated to America in 1827, that the
Magill family 'had for several generations been famed for
its wanderlus-t. It is quite probable that some of the early
McGills returned' to Ireland! (perhaps certain estates were
involved, as was often the case) and in after years the
children again emigrated to America.
It would seem from family names and certain coinci-
dences that this family must have originally belonged lo
one of the Connecticut families.
The Reverend Mathew Magill first locatea m Ontario,
but later removed' to Illinois. Here his wife died in 1883.
He returned to Ireland, w<here he subsequently remarried.
Three sons, however, remained in the United' States. Heory
234
Digitized by VjOOQIC
MAGILL
married and located in Kentucky; Arthur resided in Oak-
land, California, and Robert in Pasa^denia, California, a few
years ago.
COLONEL CHARLES MAGILL
Virginia Palriat and Statesman
Charles Magi'U^ ed»ucated to his father's profession, the
law, notwithstanding his father's Royalist sjTnpatliies,
before he was twenty-one entered the Patriotic Army. He
spent the memorable winter at Valley Forge with General
Washington and was N^xwjnded in one o<' the early battles.
He gradually rose in rank and) when General Lin<x)ln took
over the Southern Division he was nia<d!e a meonber of
General Washington's staff.
Incensed because his eldest son, Charles, had entered th-e
Patriot Army, John Magill disinherited him, leaving the
family estate and moneys to his second son Arthur (or
Archibald).
Colonel Charles Magill began the practice of law in
Winchester. He purchased twenty-five thousand acres of
land lying within five miles of Winchester. On a slight
eminencf* hv built a commodious brick mansion renowned
for its hospilalty among old Virginians. The grounds were
laid ofT by landfscape gardeners and are said t!o have con-
tained many rare and> beautiful shrubs and flowers. Colonel
Charles was a large slave owner and negro ''patches" and
quarters were also much in evidence. , Because df the great
stretch of fertile grazing fields or meadows the estate was
called ''Meadow Lands".
Colonel (Carles Magill was twice married. His fii»st wife
was a Miss Dangerfield; by her he ha*d no issue.
The second wife, Mary Buckner, bore him eleven chil-
dren, as follows:
1 John Magill, who inherited Meadow Lands and in
whose family il was retained until after the War Between
the Stales, married a Miss Glass, of Frederick County.
2 Alfred Magill, who was a professor in the University
of Virginia, marrie'd a daughter of Judge Henry St. George
Tucker.
3 Henry Magill, a physician,, of Leesburg, married a
daughter of the Honorable Temple Mason, of Temple Hall,
Virginia.
4 Augustine Magill, who was a lawj'er in Louisiana,
maoTied a Miss Weeks.
235
Digitized by VjOOQIC
NOTABLE SOUTHERN FAMILIES
5 Buckner Magill, a surgeon in the United States Army,
died unmarried.
6 Elisabelh Magill, who married CJolonel Smith, of the
United States Army.
7 A'nn<^ Magill, who married General Turner Faunt-
leroy. »
8 Mary Magill, who married Robert Lee Randolph.
10 Frances Magill, who married Alfred Thurston, of
Washington, IHstrid of Columbia.
WILLIAM MAGILL
Tennessee Pioneer, Born 1749.
Since all roads lead to Rome — in these articles the Ten-
nessee lirail — we have at last reached the patriarch of the
first Tei)ness4»(' family of McGill, or Magill, as some of
tlhem were s<K>n to become known. This was William
Magill, son of William Magill, of Rockingham County,
Virginia.
X\'illiani Magill was twenty- four years of age at the
tiime of his falher's death in 1749, and some thirty-four
years had (»la|)sed wiien we find him in Tennessee in the
year 1783.
The author of the Magill Family Record states *'That in
his old ago William accompanied his son, James to Ten-
nesse, and that James cared for him during his declining
years". William Magill was sixty years of age at the time
of the migration, and he lived to he ninety-lwo.
H(» acoompanitHi not only one son, but six sons, one
daughter and a wife. It is supposed he had a second wife,
nanuHi Jean.
It is thcHight that most, if not all, of hLs- children were
born in Virginia. During thf» years 1777-78-79 Jean resided
m Bedford C/ounly, Pennsylvania, but had disappeared from
the townshij) in whch she lived in the year 1785. A probable
theory is that William McGill married Jean in Pennsylvania,
and thai she returni*d' there while 'her husband and his sons
were sening in the Revolution.
Mention has been made in a previous article of the
North '(^ui)lina families who settled' around old ^Timber
Ri'vtgc (Miureir' in (ireene (bounty. William McGill and his
famiily were among the charter members of this church.
Ahnost all of the families in this vicini'ty were Scotch-Irish
who originally settled in tiie Cumberland Valley, but who
had branches' in Augusta County, Virginia, anfd in North
Carolina. Some of the families came direet from Pennsyl-
236
Digitized by
Google
MAGILL
vania and a number from the towns/hip in which Jean Mc-
Gill resided during the Revolution. It is possible that the
family of William Magill emigrated' with the Pennsylvania
colony:
The William McGill, senior, plantation lay on what is
now known, as it was then, as Meadow 'Oeek, and con-
tained three hiundred acres; he owned' other tracts of land
in the county. James lived on two hundred acres nearby.
The oldest, perhaps, of the sons lived on what is known as •
"Pigeon Creek". He married either in Pennsylvania or
Virginia, and di»di not long survive his f^tUher. He was a
wdower at the tiane of his death, and left ten children, five
of whom were married' daughters.
Another son, who married in Greene County, died just
about the tittie the author of the Magill RecordMorms 'ihe
breaking up" of the Magill family in Tennessee — that is,
the breaking up of the "James Magill family" in 1829 or
possibly a little later. With the exception of these two
brothers and their families, probably the youngest of the
children of William Magill, the other Magills had long since
migrated to other counties and oliher states. Tw^o of the
sons of William, senior, moved to Wayne Coimty. The
daughter, Rlizabeth, married John Walker.
JAMES MAGILL
Virginia Patriot and Tennessee Pioneer.
James McGill, son of William, and grandson of William,
of Rockingham County, Virginia, was born in 1756, in
Augusta Comnty, Virginia. He sei-ved in the Revolution in
ihe Twelfth Virginia Regiment.
He emigrated with his father's family to Noi-th Carolinot,
now Greene County, Tennessee, about 1783. He married
twice, his wives belonging to neighboring families. By his
first wife, Elizabeth Evans, he had a daughter, Margaret,
and a son, William. James McGill married a second time,
Mary McMeans; the issue of this marriage was nine sbns
and one daughter. In 1839, James Magill moved to Monroe
County, Tennessee. A year later, 1840, he died' at his home,
three miles west of Madisonville. The widow of James
Magill, Mary McMeans Magill, after her husband's death,
made her home with her daughter, Mrs. Nathan Anderson,
in Ringgold. Georgia, where her death took place December
4,1845.
■ The following data is taken from the Magill Family
Record:
237
Digitized by VjOOQIC
NOTABLE SOUTHERN FAMILIES
'"Margaret, daughter of Jame& Magill and Beisy Evans,
mamed Adam Wilson and emigrated to Indiana about 1832.
William, son of James Magill and BetS'y Evans, married in
Tennessee, Sarati Henry; he emigrated 'to Hopewell, Inrtianaf.
Here his wife died and ihe married again Nancy Henderson.
Thomas, eldest son of James Magill and Mary McMeans,
married in Greene County, Tennessee, Mary Hall; he, toOj
emigrated to Indiana.
*'James, John and Harvey died unmarried.
**Nathaniel, married in Greene County, Jane Rankin, and
removed to Madisonville, Tennessee.
"Samuel Wallace McGill, married in Greene County,
Margaret Wilson Rankin, widiow of David Rankin, and re-
moved to Madisonville, Tennessee.
"Hugh Marshall Magill, married Eliza MoSpadden in
Monroe Qounty, and emigrated to Catoosa County, Georgia.
"Isaac Newton Magill, married in Greene County, Ten-
nessee, Hannah Evans, and removed to Kentucky.
"Susan Matilda McGill, married Nathan Anderson in,
Greene County, and removed to Ringgold, Georgia.
"Robert Magill married Fannie Lowry".
They had a son, Aurelius Newton Magill, who married
Jane Louise Wilson.
Their dhildren were:
1 William Leonid'as Magill.
2 Robert Edward Magill.
3 James Alexandfer Magill.
William Leonidas Magill married, first, Mary Gaines,
and had four children, Alexander Magill, William Magill,
Bessie Magill and Sadie Magill; William Leonidas Magill
married for his second wife. Prances Bachman.
Robert Edward Magill marri«ed Elizabeth Lynn, of
Bowling Greene, Kentucky, and' had two children, Elizabeth
Lynn Magill and Oornelia Magill, who married Robert Mc-
Clennon Whittet and has one child, Robert McClennon
Whittett, junior.
James Alexander Magill married Alice Patton and died
without issue.
The descendants of James Magill are intimately asso-
ciated with three historic churches: "Timber Ridge,"
Greene Ooimty, one of the pioneer churches w^ho^ congre-
gation settled' in its neighborhood while Tennesse was yet
a part of North Carolina; Hopewell Presb>4erian Church,"
238
Digitized by VjOOQIC
MAGILL
near Franklin, Indiana, where the fifth generation,— de-
scendants of Willieun Magill and Saraih Henry still worship.
And the **01d Stone Ghureh" at Chickamauga, Georgia,
founded abooit 1848.
Robert McGorckle Magill, son of Robert Magill and
Fanny Lowery and author of *The Magill Family Record,"
in his reminiscence, says : "His father, Robert Magill, son
of James Magill, moved from Monroe Gounty to North
Georgia and settled on East Chattanooga Creek in 1837. The
Indians had not yet been removed to their Western Reser-
vation. In a little valley to the east of ttie house where the
Indians had kept the leaves burned off each winter and
called *The Flat Woods' it was not an •uncommon sight to
see from six to tei> deer grazing".
Perhaps no other family in Tennessee has by marriage
allied itself with so many of the most prominent and old
pinoeer stock of the state as toas the Magill family.
Early Magill Marriages in Rockingham County, Virginia
James Magill, junior, married Jane Fulton May 28, 1781.
Esther Magill marriral Alexander Gilmer September 24,
1728.
Samiiel Magill married Martha Shannon November 4,
1782.
Margaret Magill married Robert Henry March 28, 1872.
Digitized by
Google
Digitized by
Google
MONTGOMERY
Trci^dition in several brajicJies of tbe family says the
Montgomerys (the name means "Mount Gomer" or Mmm-
tain Dwellers) were driven on a>ccount of religious per-
secution from Scotland early in the 1700's, to the north of
Ireland. There, James, founder of this particular branch
and son of Montgomery and wife. Miss
Cunningham was born. TradHion also is very strong that
Th<e supposition that he came ftrst to Pennsylvania (per-
haps with his parents) and later to Aoigiista County ( Vir-
ginia, before finally settling in old Pendleton District, South
CJarolina in 1849, has much to support it. Certain it is that
many of the name along with other Scotch-Irish settlers
took that route. The name is found most frequently in the
early 'history of Pennsylvania.
James Montgomery, born about 1740, was married twice.
First to Elizabeth McDonnell, by whom he had three sons.
After heir dleath in old Pendleton District, South Carolina,
he married Susannah Strange, who bore him six (some say
seven) c^hildren.
Living almost on the line between South Carolina and
Georgia, he elected to join the Burke County, (Ga), Militia
and fought with that company during at least a part of the
Revolution as a Second Lieutenant. He was commissioned
November 8th, 1777, by John Adams Neisler, Esq. Proof
of this is found in **Clommission Book B", Page 276, at
Capitol, Atlanta, Georgia.
In 1786, he applied for and received a land grant in
Franklin Ooainty, Georgia and evidently moved there soon
afterwards.
In old documents cancerning the Talasee Colony and
publififhed in Mr. Wilson's History of Jackson County ,Geor-
gia", frequent mention is mad^ of him. An account of a
241
Digitized by VjOOQIC
NOTABLE SOUTHERN FAMILIES
skirmish with the Indians in which 'he is seriously wounded
is given. I>r. G. G. Smith's History of Georgia and Her
People" also records this incident. 'Mention is also made
of tte fact thai he built the first house in the Oounty and
thai "Cabin 'Greek'' derived its name therefrom.
He died in Jackson (^(uuity, (which only a Any years
before imd been formi^d from Franklin) on January 1st,
1808 and was buried on the old home place, now owned by
a Mr. Tudtty. His wife, Susannah Strange Montgomery,
died October 8th, 1804.
Children by first wife, Elizabeth McGonnell were I. John
(said to have died a British prisoner at Battle of Wax-
Jiaws).
II. Hugh born January 8th, 17(57, married Margaret
Barclay, (born K( brunrv 8th, 17(58). N()veml>er
1788, died January 2Vnd, 185'^. She died, Jaily 28th, 1848.
III. James MoOonnell, born May 19th. 1770, married
Nancy Farlow, (born Oct(>l>er 7<h, 1781. November 14th,
1797). Both died 1842.
Ohildren by the stKNHid wife, Susaniui'h Strang (she died
October 8th, 1804) were:
IV. John (?).
V. Jeanette, born 1780, married Jos. X. McGain, (born
1777).
VI. Virginia, born 1781, married Jaines Apj)l«»l)V, Jime
1, 1806. She died 1875.
VII. Williaiii, born J.uly Uth, 1783, married (1st, Kath-
erine Boyle, March 31, 1807), (2nd Mrs. Adelia Turner,
Odtober 13th, 1854), died Dt^cember 4th, 1877.
VIII. Margaret or Susit\ born 1785, married Thomas
Niblack.
IX. Eleanor, born '1787, married Heiuy Ouuningham.
X. Sarah A., born 1789, married' Nathaniel Venable, ho
died 1832, she died 1864.
II. HUCiH MONT(U)MKRY
II. Gol. Hiugh L. Monlgimiery (second son of Jnmi'« and
his first wife, Elizabeth McC.onnein was born in South
Carolina, January 8th, 1767, and married, Novi^iuber 1788,
Margate* Barclay, (daughter of John and Agnes).
His name appears first in the Georgia i*ecords, when in
1786 he wias em'ployed to survey tlie line '*betvvet*n Frank-
lin Goimlfy and the Indians''. This line has always been
known as t'he Hawkins line from the fact thai Gol. Benj.
Hawkins, the United States Indian Agent, auihorized the
survey of the Government. The original plals maile by
Digitized by
Google
MONTGOMERY
Hugh Montgomery iand<;bearing his signature are on file and
are almost daily cansulfed, being recognized) as authority
in line disputes, etc.
The story of this survey has been recalled J)y an older
member of tihe family just as told to him when a boy, by
Uncle Dave, one of the slaves once owned by Col. Mont-
gomery and who 6W)cam'panied the surveying party. It
seems the Oherokees had agreed for the usual U'inkeis,
blankets, straps, ponies, etc., to give over all the land' Ihat
the soirveyors could run off in a given lengUi of lime. Be-
ginning at Savannah River they traveled west U) Ihe Oco-
nee, tiience south so nmny miles. After while the Indians
began to lag back and only with much persuasion accom-
panied by more trinkets could the white party persuade
them to m>ove on. After a few hours of travel though, the
Indian leader stuck his tomahawk in a large oak tree say-
ing, ^'Indians go no further'' hence the origin of Chr'rokee
CJorner" of tocky.
Col. Montgomery represented Jackson Ckmnty in The
state legislature for the years 1807-08-09-10 and 1811. In
the stiate senate he seized in 1812, 43, 44, 45, 46, 47, 48,
'23, '24 and 1825. Being a Scotchmian, hie was an ardent
Presbyterian and with Ex-Grovernor McMinn of Tennessee,
he became interested in mission work among the Cherokee
Indians of North Georgia and really financed the sending
of the first missionaries to them. Upon the death of Ex-
Governor McMinn, he was nominated on March 3rd, 1S25
by President Monro*^ to be Indian Agent of the Oherokoe
Purchase, his appointment Ixnng confirmed by the senate
a few days later. He enltTed upon his duties shortly thi^re-
•after, making his headquanters at or near Calhoun, Tenn-
essee and served until the Indians were moved West in 1S3S.
His salary wms $1500.00 a year (quite large for those days)
and upon retirement was al»o given a tract of 3,000 acres
in Chattooga County, Georgia. There, surrounded by
several members of his large family, he lived aintil January
22nd, 1852. He was buried ait Alpine (same coainty) by
the side of his wife who died July 25t.h, 1848. Shh was
born February 8th, 1768.
His will recorded in Chattooga County has been lost
along with other records, though minutes of the Inferior
Court stale that it was offered for probate by ttu^ee wit-
nesses, John Montgomery, John Wyatt and William Smith
on February 2nd, 1852.
His children were:
2i3
Digitized by VjOOQIC
NOTABLE SOUTHERN FAMIUES
Ist, Agnes, 2nd, Barclay, 3rd, Mary, 4*th, Gynthia, 5th,
Jaones, 6th, Elizabeth, 7th, Jane, 8th, Ohrifi^topher, 9th,
William, 10th, Madison, llfth, Eliza Ann.
(1) Agnes bom February 7th, 1790, marriied Joseph
Thomas Cfunningham June 25th, 1807 and died Deoembep ►
8th, 1862.
The children were :
1 Eugh Montgomery Cunningham, ommamed.
2 Margaret Cunningham, •miarried LiddelK
Their daughter, (A) Betty mairied Mr. Boswell. Their
children, (a) Jo«hn, married* Hallie Boswell (two children)
(b) Frank, married Mrs. M. C. Jinks (no children), (c)
Agnes, married , (d) Margaret un«
nterried.
3 Jane Ouinningham, married, John Cunningham, (son
of Ansel). No children.
4 Cynthia Ounningham, married Storey.
5 Amanda Cunningham, /married Dr. John Nesbit.
They had one daiughter, Addle Nesbit w^ho married James
Henry and has a deuighter Mary Henry who married^ .
6 Andrew Cunningham, married Jane Veneahle. Their
children: (a) Margaret, married J. A. Storey. Their child-
ren: (a) A. G. Storey, married Nellie Toole. Their child-
ren are: Barckley Augustus Storey, Margaret Virginia
Storey. (B) Agnes Elizabeth, married John Winboume.
Their daughter, (a) Agnes Elizabeth, mfea*riedj D. M. Rem-
son. Their children: Andrew Cimning^ham Remson,
Caroline King Remson, John Winbourne Remson, Agnes
Elizabeth Remson and David Murry Remson. (c) Robert
Josepih (living) unmarried, (d) John Raid, died unmarried.
(e) Fanny Forrester, married) W. E. Storey, (f) Jean
Veneable, married Otis Cook.
7 Golfumbus' Golden Ounnighemfi, married Fredonia
Cameron. Their children: (a) Joseph Thomas, married,
: , (b) Sarah Agnes, married Leveret,
(c) Adeline, married McDoniald. (d) Hugh Montgomery,
married McDonald.
8 Joseph Cunningham, married Martha R. Mclellan,
Their children: (a) Amanda Siorey, mfeirried' (b) John
Reid, miarried Ann Eliza Turner, (c) Martha Roby, nmirried
Rufus Turner.
(2) Barclay, born January 31st, 1792, married Miss
Chandler.
(3) Mary, born March 16th, 1794, married Sanniel
244
Digitized by VjOOQIC
MONTGOMERY
Knox (uncle of her sister Elizabeth's husbeuid) October 5th,
1809.
Their ohildlren :
1 Dp. James GroH Knox, born March 28, 1812, married
first, Mary Jane Bowie, second, Mary Elizabeth Barnett and
third!, Mrs. Margaret Johnslian Rice.
2 Cynthia L. Knox, born May 24. 1813, married Judge
T. J. Etevis and died November 19, 1861.
3 Hugh Montgomery Knox, bom December 12, 1814,
married Harriet Lainiar (daughter of Gen. John Lamar).
4 Joihn Barclay Knox, born Febmary 5, 1816, married
Agnes Boyle in 1840.
5 WiWiam W. 'Knox, bom Joily 7, 1819, married Mary
Bowie, Decmber 23, 184d.
6 Margaret Ann Knox, born September 30, 1820, mcur-
ried Samuel McWhorler.
7 Christopher G. Knox, born April 19, 1822, married
first Miss Clark, and second Julia A. Strickland in 1865.
8 D. L. Knox, born August 25, 1824, died in infancy.
9 Samud M. Knox, bora May 31, 1826, died without
issue.
10 Mary J. Knox, born November 7, 1827, married John
Mackey anid died January 7, 1846.
11 Elizabeth E. Knox, bom Augfust 6, 1829, died Feb-
ruary 16th, 1882, unmarried.
12 Thomas J. Knox, bom February 21, 1831, married
first, Maggie Bannar, second, Ann Montgomery and third, .
Jane Maddux.
13 Eliza Agnes Knox, born July 14, 1832, married Dr.
R. Y. Hudicil in 1857 and died January, 1897.
14 Evelyn Knox, died unmarried.
(4) Cynthia, born April 5, 1796, married Robert Broyles
April 10J1817 and died 1835.
(5) James, born Mairoh 20, 1798, married first Ann Oun-
nigham March 28, 1820, (daa^hter of Ansel, a Ilevolution-
ary soldier) and- second', Siariah Orr.
(6) Elizabeth, born April 20, 1800, marriedl David L.
Knox 1820 and died Febmary 7, 1859.
Their children were :
1 Cynthia Ann Knox, married' James Parks, had several
children all of whom died young.
2 James Montgomery Knox, born July 11, 1822, mar-
ried Nancy Camp in 1848, no cnildren.
245
Digitized by VjOOQIC
NOTABLE SOUTHERN FAMILIES
3 Hiiph Orawford Knox, n-ever married.
4 Samuel Knox, married Mary E. Grills, and died 1887.
5 Christopher G. Knox, born February 21, 1827, mar-
ried Melita Jane Weir February 21, 1850, andldSed April 11,
1899.
7 Mary Jane, married El-eazer Freeman and died 1884
(7) William Knox, born September 10, 1828, married
Tennessee Smith, March 14, 1861.
Their children were:
(A) Elizabeth M., married George Nixon.
(B) John G., married Annie Laura Johns-ton.
(G) Ern(»st Lee, married Josephine Isabella Wheeler.
(I)) William Luckie, died' unmarredl
(E) Walter Smith Knox, married Annie Gtetrmack.
(F) Henry Thomas.
(G) James Montgomery, died in infancy.
(H) Pearl Ophelia, married Sam/uel Joihnston.
(I) David Knox.
8 Joseph Scott Knox, born November 1829, married
Mary Elizabeth Oarlock, October 9, 1860, and died Meu'ch
23, 1886.
9 Margaret Knox, born April 15, 1830, married Henry
Rice 1857, and died November 23, 1876, no children.
10 Thomas Jefferson Knox, born January 10, 1833,
imarried Martha A Morrison August 29, 1859, and died- .
Their children Avere:
(A) Haliie E., married James McKatny (her cousin).
(B) Robert Lee, married Belle Feaitherstone.
(G) Ebon Thomas, married Florence Wheeler.
(D) Osciar A., married Harrie Hardwick (distani
cousin).
Their chiM*ren were :
(A) Adrfla, married Joseph Jamigan.
(B) Irene, married James F. Gorn.
(E) Mary Leonia, married Frank Harle.
(F) Hiugh Montgomery, married Agnes Gaaii
1 1 Juliet E. Knox, bbrn May 23, 1834, married William
H. McKamy November 2, 1854, and died .
Their children were:
(A) David Knox, married Laura S. Wailes.
(B) James,. married He»ttie Knox (above mentioned).
(C) William H., junior, died unmarried'.
246
Digitized by VjOOQIC
MONTGOMERY
(D) Annie, died unmarried.
(E) Thomas J., unmarried.
(F) Joseph A., died unmemed.
(G) Minnie J., married D. G. McLean.
12 Nancy Agnes Knox, bam 1836, died unmarried.
13 Caroline Elizabeth Knox, born December 28, 1838,
married' Al^xandfr G. Ro^beson November 9, 1859,
Their €(hildren were :
(A) William Henry Knox Robeson, married India Fer-
guson, and had Edilh Maxwell Robeson, died luimarried;
Gerfnide Robeson; India Robeson, married George Feather-
stone; and Louise Robeson died in infancy.
(B) Katherine Elizabeitih Robeson married Edgar V.
Garter and has Roberson Carter; Edgar V. Garter, junior,
Frank Garter and Katherine Garter.
(G) A. G., junior, died in infancy.
14 Henry Harriso-n Knox, born July 16, 1840, married
Jennie Vaughn. H. H. Knox died June 18, 1910. Jennie
Vaughn Knox was born December 31, 1845 and died
October 3, 1905.
Their childre-n were :
(A) Emma Sue Knox who married George MadSson
Smartt and had Henry Knox Smartl (who married Mrs.
Elizabeth Gollier Meade) ; Gora Vaughn Smartt (who mar-
rifMl Jamm Ferguson Finlay and has Elizabeth Smartt Fin-
lay and James Ferguson Finlay, junior) ; Harold Robert
Smarit (who married N'irginia Hill and has Harold Robert
Smartt, junior) ; George Madison Smartt; Emma Sue
Smartt (who married Richard G\\yn Brock and has Rich-
ard (rwin Brock, juuioir^ ; James Polk Sanartt; ajid Foley
Vaughn Suiar'^lt.
(B) Gora Knox, died young.
(G) Foley Vaughn Knox.
(7) Jane, born August 1, 1802, married John Wesley
Hardwick, September 22, 1818, and died in Dalton, Georgia,
March 28, 1879. Was buried in Glevelanidl Tennessee.
For list of be-r descendants see Hardwick Family.
(8) Ghristopher -G., born December 12, 1804, died 1824
in Athens, Georgia, while attending the University of
Georgia.
(9) William, born December 20, 1807, married 1st, Ann
Jones, 2nd, Ann Moore.
(lO'i Madison, born March 29, 1810, married Narcissa
Hemphill. Lived and practised medicine in Ghattooga
County, Georgia.
247
Digitized by VjOOQIC
;. NOTABLE SOUTHERN FAMIUES
Among his children were :
1 Ann R. C, born 1838.
2 Hiigh, born 1840.
3 Jaunes, born 1842.
4 William, born 1844.
5 Margaret, born 1846.
6 Sarah, born 1849.
(11) Eliza Ann, bom December 13, 1812, and married
Dr. George R. Gnanlt of Memphis, Tennessee.
III. JAMES McGONNELL MONTGOMERY
III. Jaimes McGonnell (third son of James Montgomery
and lirst wife, Elizabeth McGonnell), was born in South
'Oarolina, May 19, 1770, and' moved with his father's family
to Jackson County, Georgia. Here in 1806 to 1807 he served
as Sheriff. Was also judlge of the Inferior Court in 1829.
About this year he moved to DeKalb County, and seittled at
Montgomery's Ferr>' (now I>eFoors). He died OcfohM* 6,
1842. James M. G. Monlgomery served in thie War of 1812
as a wagontnaster in Floyd's Brigade, Georgia Militia. His
services began October 31, 1813. He als'o ser\^ed wilb rank of
special conmiissiary in said organization from October
13, 1813 to March 1, 1814 (Record from War Department).
He married in Hancock Gouriiy, Georgia, Nancy Farlow,
who wajs born in Maryland, October 7, 1781. She died July
27, 1842.
Their children were:
(1) Adecia F., born April 4, 1799, Tnarried Samu!>l
Pniitt^ junior, 1st, in 1816, and Wyatt 2nd.
(3) Lucinda Mc, born October 28, 1800, married D. J.
Oonnally, 1821.
(3) Amelia S., born April 19, 1802, married Joseph D.
Shumate, 1819.
(4) Sophronia P., born October 24, 1803, married John
Franklin, 1819.
(5) Ulysses Mc, born December 15, 1805, married
Elizabeth Hum'ber, 1826.
(6) Telemachus F., born January 14, 1808, married
E)ni!Hy Felder, l^t, arKi Mary Turner, 2nd.
1^ Rhadamanthus J., born November 29, 1811, married
Harriet Bogle, 1835.
(8) James Floyd, born September 10, 1813, married
Elizabeith Young, 1837.
(9) Newman G., born August 8, 1815, died in infancy.
248
Digitized by
Google
MONTGOMERY
(10) WilHam F., born Deoeinl>ep 16, 1816, died Novem-
ber 2, 1833.
(11) Joseph T., born May 23, 1819, nrniried Julia Gam-
eron, 1842. •
(12) Rhoda Naroissa, born March 22, 1822, married Al-
9red B. Brown, Ist, and Henry Dean, 2nd.
(13) Hirgh B. Thwpe, born. April 17, 1824, married
Mary Broughlon, 1849.
Of the above, Rhadamanfhus and Telemach/us were Pres-
bjierian ministers.
Joseph and H'U'gih Thorpe were teachers, and foomded
Ih^ Lagrange Female Oo-llege.
Ulysses and James Floyd were planters.
The abave Floyd- Montgomery was barn in Jackson
County Georgia, September 10, 1813, married Elizabeth Ann
Young (diaughter of Samuel Young), January 12, 1837, and
died in DeKalb County, Georgia, June 8, 1847. She was
bom in Abbeville, Soirih Caroliwa, Auigust 1, 1816, and died
October 1900.
Ohildten were:
1 Emma M., born October 13, 1837, married G. P. Hay-
nes May 17, 1855, and died January 23, 1913. Had three
ohi'lcfren.
2 William Riiadamanthus, born February 15. 1839,
married 1st, Emmia Northcutt May 17, 1866, and 2na, Anna
Towers- September 12, 1895. He died in Marietta, Georgia,
November 30, 1906.
3 Nancy Jane, bom December 17, 1841, and died June
11, 1855.
4 Joseph S., born December 29th, 1843 and diedi at
Harne, Texas. Left lw«o children.
5 Henrj' T., bom De^cember 20th, 1846, married 1st,
Mary Under. His second marriage was to Willie Wallis,
September 4, 1907.
<3hildren of William Rhadamanthus Montgomery and
Isl wifo, Emma Northcu'tt were:
(A) Jessie Lee, bom June 24, 1867, »married James T.
Andlprson, February 6, 1895. They have five children.
(B) James Harrold, born November 23, 1868, and died
Julv 18, 1870.
'(C) Lilly Asenah, born October 31, 1872, died November
1874.
(D) Mary Emma, bom March 14, 1874.
(F) Julia Pearl, born Jyly 6, 1877, and died July 31,
1879.
249
Digitized by VjOOQIC
NOTABLE SOUTHERN FAMILIES
(G) George Floyd, born M«ay 14, 1879, married Susie
May Wallace November 27, 1900.
(H) Ndlie May, born Novembefp 8, 1880, and died Aug-
ust 13, 1881.
(I) Williain R., junior, born September 10, 1882, and
died September 2, 1886.
(J) Annie Elizabeth, bom October 1, 1883, married
Harry Du Pree, January 8, 1902.
IV. Jeianneftte Montgomery, (the oldest child of James
Montgomery and his second! wife, Susannah Strange, was
born 1780, manried' Joseph N. McCain, and 'bad several
children, among whom were :
(1) James Montgomery McCain, born 1805, married
Louisa Wood (?). TThey had at least one child.
(A Joseph, born 1837.
(2) Joseph H. McCain, born 1820, married Susan
, andi h^d children, lamong whom was :
(A) Elizabeth, bom 1884.
The above mentioned JeaneHe Montgomery after her
mairriage to Joseph N. McCain, of North Carolina, seems
tb have lived several years in that settle — her children hav-
ing been been born there — before moving "to Chattooga
Coimty, Georgia, Where she is th'oughit to have died.
V Virginia Montgomery, (the second! child of James
Montgomery and bis second wife, Susannah Strange), was
born 1781, m/arried James Appleby, June 1, 1805, and died
1875. He was bom 1779, and died 1866.
Their childk^en were:
(1) William, born June 16, 1806.
(2) John, born May 24, 1808, married! Virginia Key,
October 14, 1830.
(3) Casandfia, born Aoigust 1, 1810, married Thomas
Oheatham, October 18, 1827.
(4) Evelyn, bom December 7, 1812, married Bishop
Thomas T. Scott, November 25, 1830.
(5) James M., bom June 2, 1815, meirried Elizabetih
Horton, Septmber 3, 1836.
(6) Hugh C, born June 21, 1818, married Eliza Davis,
October 15, 1840.
(7) William D., born March 2, 1821, married Mary E.
Wiiliamson, December 29, 1841.
Many of the descendants of the above Virginia Mont-
gomery Appeby live in and around Jackson County,
Georgia.
250
Digitized by VjOOQIC
MONTGOMERY
VI. William Montgomery, (the third child of James
Montgomery and his second wife, Susannah Strsinge, wa^
born n South Carolina, July il, 1783, lived in Gwinnett,
County, Georgia, then moved! to Vann's Valley near Rome,
Georgia, where ne died Dcember 14, 1877. He was twice
married', Isl to Catherine Boyle, March 31, 1807. She was
born December 23, 1786, and died December 16, 1851.
After her death he married Mrs. Adelia Turner, October
12, 1854.
Ghildrem by first wife:
(1) Mildred Boyle, born February 13, 1808, never mar-
ried, died December 29, 1890.
(2) John, born January 23, 1810, married Mary Galiton
StetvaiT*, and died November 3, 1891.
(3) Polly (or Mary), born April 17, 1812, married
McNeese (nc children), and dlied July 23.
(4) Hugh, born February 22, 1814, married Caroline
Orr, and died April 11, 1887.
(5) Oynlbia Ann, born Judy 27, 1818, married W. G.
Orr, and died August 31, 1889.
(6) Rebecca Caroline, born May 23, 1816, married' Wm.
Cunningham, and died Marc?h 8, 1875.
(7) James Madison, born June 22, 1820, never married,
and died October 26, 1891.
(8) Wm. Ma-rtin, born April 27, 1822, never married,
and died September 4, 1845.
(9) Jane Amanda, bom April 25, 1824, married
Thomas Mayfield, and died July 23, 1867.
(10) Katherine Narcissa, bom June 5, 1826, never mar-
ried, and died) November 23, 1846.
(11) Christopher Styles, born September 12, 1828,
victim of War an November 21, 1864.
(12) George Cicero, born August 13, 1830, victim of
War on November 1, 1863.
(John's daughter married Thomas Knox).
VII. Margaret Montgomery, (the third child of James
Montgomery and his second wife, Susannah Strange, was
born 1785, married Thomas Nibkck.
Their children were:
(1) William.
(2) Samuel.
(3) Hugh, married Miss Howard.
(4) Augustus.
251
Digitized by VjOOQIC
NOTABLE SOUTHERN FAMILIES
(5) Virginia, married Epperson.
(6) Caraline, married Haiitsford Howard.
(7) Amelia, married Benj. Lampkins.
Margaret Montgomery NiMack and all her family ex-
cept her son Hugh, moved to Texas.
Descendants of this- Hugh livedl in and around 'ijlcson
Oounty, Georgia.
VIII. Eleanor Monlgomeryj (the fifth child of James
Montgomery and his second wife, Susannah Strange, wa«
*born 1787, married Henrv Cunningham.
They had sevenal chldren, annong whom was Isabolle
who matried Eobert Veneable.
Agnes Veneable, daughter of above, married her cousin,
Andlrew Cunningham.
Mr. A. G. St'orey, of Talladega, Alabama, is a grandson
of Andrew and Agries Cunningham.
IX. Sarah Montgomery, (the sixth child of James
Montgomery and his second wife', Sus€mnah Strange, was
born in Georgia, 1789, married Nathaniel Veneable.
Their children were :
(1) Buford.
(2) Elizabeth.
'3) Cynthia.
^4) Martha.
!5) Anna.
6) Pleasant.
7) John.
8) James.
/9) William Richaaxl, married' Sarah Cornelia Hoy4.
: iO) Sarah.
^11) Jane.
Children of William Veneable and wife Sarah Cornelia
Hoyt are:
*i William Hoyt, married Sallie Miller, and died Sept-
ember i, 1906.
2 Sarah Mariah, died March 1857.
3 Samuel Hioyt, {unmarried).
4 Walter Ijouis, (unmarried).
5 Arlhur Orr, married' Blanche Beverly Cooke.
6 Charles, married Sarah Adair, (died July 11, 1890) .
7 Jaimes Darhis, died 1865.
8 Clarence Darius, married Maltie Ragon.
9 Lelia Ella, married Dr. James Nims EHis, and diied
19?0.
10 Elizabeth Richard, married Frank Tucker Mason.
252
Digitized by VjOOQIC
RHEA
The Rhea family desoende from the CSaropbells of Scot-
land. The Campbell family was of N-orman and Celtic
diesoent, and "of large possessions, and being allicKK to the
poyal family did much to secure the people of that country
from relapsing into fhe bar<barious independence of their
ancestors". (Sco^tt'd History of Scotland).
Prom the lime of Archibald Campbell, Fourth Earl of
Argyll, who embraced protestanism, the House of Argyll
was the bulwark of protestantism in Scotland.
Archibald Campbell, Ninth Earl of Argyll, in taking the
lest oath, under Charles the Second, add^' Ihe phrase, "so
•far as consistent with the protestant faith," for this he was
tried for treason and condemned to be exeou'tedl. The sen-
tetiice was suspended by royal orders.
On the accession of James the Second, a Roman Cath-
olic, Argj'll <ook a leading part in fomenting the rebellion
in favor of the protestant, Duke of Monmouth. Wheq
Monmou'lh sailed to Englandi the Duke endeavored to raise
an army but the Scotch were not ripe for rebellion and h©
succeeded' in levying only a small body of men, one of
whom was his cousin, Matthew Campbell.
After two or three skirmishes mos-t of these followers
deserted' the standard of the Earl of Argyll, but he, and the
faithful few remaining, undertook to make their way into
England to join the Duke of Monmouth, but were sur-
roundied and taken prisoners. Argyll was executed, in
June 1865, without trial, under the old sentence. His cousin,
Matthew Campbell, was tried and condemned to life im-
prisonment, and was confined on the Isle of Man. From
•thence he escaped, fled' into Ireland, and assumed the name
of Reah, (variously spelled Reaigh, Reahgh, Rea, Ray and
finally established into Rhea) and by this act became the
253
Digitized by VjOOQIC
NOTABLE SOUTHERN FAMIUES
founder of the faniHy of Rhea, in Ireland. (Some of the
(iescendants in Nova Scotia use the spelling Reah).
After locating in Ireland, true to his Presbyterian blood,
he took a proniineoit part in the siege of Londonderry.
John Rhea, in his me^moirs of the Rhea faimily, says it is
nol known whether the wife of Matthew Campbell Rhea
was married' to him in Scotland, before his imprisonment,
or whether he married a wife in Ireland, but he had three
sons. The naones of two are unknown, buft a third, Matthew
Rhea II, married a wife, wJiose n«ame is unknown, and
had four sons :
I Sanmel Rhea,
II William Rhea,
III Isaac Rhea,
IV MAITHEW RHEA III,
By his second wife, Elizabeth McLain, he had Ave
children :
V Abraham Rhea, diied without issue,
VI James Rhea, died without issue,
VII Margery Rhea,
VIII Agnes Rhea,
IX JOSEPH RHEA.
I SAMUEL RHEA
I Samuel Rhea, born in Ireland, came early to Amer-
ica and settled at Port Pin, near New Oas-tle, Delaware.
Wife's name unknown. They had one son, name lunknown,
who mamed a wife, name unknown, and had a son and
daughter. This son was a surgeon on one of tihe largest
armed ships of the American Navy during the Revolutionary
War. This ship sailed on a cruise and was no more heard
of. The daughter married twice: First 0*Hara;
Second, Frazier. They lived near New Castle, Del-
aware. She had children by 'her second hoisbeuid.
II WILLIAM RHEA
II William' Rhea, born in Ireland, came early to
America and settled in Chester County, Pennsylvania. He
married a wife, name •unknowti, 6uid had three children:
(1) James Rhea; (2) Mary Rliea, who married John Brown
and lived near Wilmington, Delaware; (3) Elizabeth Rhea,
who married James M'cGorkle, and lived in Washington, D.
C. They had several daughters and two sons : (a) James
254
Digitized by
Google
RHEA
McCorkle; (b) William MoGorkle, who lived in Pennsyl-
vania and was editor of a newspai>er.
Ill ISAAC RHEA
III Isaac Rhea came early to America and lived in
Pennsylvania. He married a wife named Peoples
and had a daughter, name unknown.
IV MATTHEW RHEA III
IV Matthew Rhea III lived and died in Kinnically,
near St. Jo^hnston, Ireland. He had a son naimed William
Rhea II, who married Elizabeth Locfchart. William Rhea
was born and married in Ireland. After tihe birth of his
children he moved, with his 'family to America (1785) and
Jocated in Washington Ckmnty, Virginia, where he lived
until his d^eath. He had children: (1) Matthew Rbea IV,
who married Margaret Breden, (sister of Frances, Elizabeth
and Nancy Breden, who married, respec^tively, Joseph,
William and Samuel Rhea) and had diildren: (a) Eliza-
beth Rhea; (b) William Rhea; (c) Margaret FBhea^ (d)
Robert Bruce Rhea (1814-1888) (married twice: First,
Sarah Ann White, no issue; Second, Sarah Sells. Children:
Margaret R(^becca Rhea, (1876-) who married Robert EJar-
hart Rlhea (son of Joseph Rhea and Elizabeth Ann (Bar-
heart) Rhea). Children und^r Robert Earheart. Rhea: John
Matthew Rhea, (1878-) who married Elizabeth Payne
Gresham, and had children: Eleanor Elizaibeth and John
Maj,thew Rhea II; William Rankin Rhea, (1880-) who mar-
ried Mary Zeta Slack, and had children : Robert Bruce and
Julia Hoteton); (e) Sallie Rhea; (f) Jane Rhea, (married
Alexander Doggett, and had chldren: Catherine, James,
and Williaim) ; (2) Jennie Rhea; (3) Joseph Rhea; (4)
William Rhea; (5) Sarah Rhea; (6) Elizabeth Rhea; (7)
ROBERT RHEA, (1784-1841) (was born in Ireland and
came to America wWh his father (1785) and located in
Washington County, Virgin'ia. Later he moved to Sullivan
Ct)unty, Tennessee, where he lived until his death). He
mairried twice: First, Elizabeth Rhea (daughler of Rev.
Joseph Rhea and EHzabetih (Mcllwaine) Rhea) ; Second,
Jane Scott (daughter of John Scott, a colonel in the Revo-
hitiunary War). By his first wife he had four children,
giv<^n in fuil under Elizabeth Rhea. By the second wife he
had children: (a) Mary Rhea, (1827-1882) who married
James J. Snapp, and had children: Robert L. Snapp; Mary
J. Snai)p; James B. Snapp; Sarah E. Snapp; Margaret V.
255
Digitized by VjOOQIC
NOTABLE SOUTHERN FAMILIES
Snapp, (1857) (who married Robert Sna'pp, and had
children : Mary E. Snapp, wbo married Charles R. Bright,
and had children: Virgnia and Williaan; Myrtle Snapp;
James Snapp; Mattie L. Snapp, wlho married Joseph
Booheo", and ihad children: Belle and Everett; Margarett
Snapp; Landoil Snapp); Loueja Snapp; Laura Snapp;
William Snapp; (b) Jane Rhea, who married ^
Smith ; (c) Margaret Rliea, who married Audley Andereoa
(son of Edward B. Anderson and Eleanor (Rhea) Ander-
son). Children under EMward B. Anderson.
Note : William F. Rhea, memibeir of congress from 9th
Virginia District, is a grandson of William Rftiea and Eliza-
beth (Lockhart) Rhea.
VII MARGERY RHEA
VII Margery Rhea married McOrabb^ lived and
died in Ireland. Names of children unknown excepting one
son, John MoCrabb, w^ho married his cousin, Elizabeth
LaWa, and' came to America (1783) and located in Wilming-
ton, Delaware. After tihe birth of his children he moved to
the HoJston Country, Tennessee, and located on a farm
Where he and his wife lived until their death. William,
hiiS eldiest son (names of oPher children unknown) lived
on the paternal farm.
VIII AGNES RHEA
VIII Agnes Rhea married William Latta, of CosfWan,
near St. Johnston, Ireland. She had chiidrn, names un-
known excepting Elizabeth La'lita and Joseph Latla. Joseph
Latta came to America, marrie<d and lived near Brandywine,
Pennsylvania.
IX JOSEPH RHEA
IX Joseph Rhea, (1715-1777), son of Matfihew Rhea II
and ihis second wife Elizabeitth (McGlain) Rhea, was born
in Parish Laughl'in, Ireland, died in Piney Greek, Maryland,
He married (1752) Elizabeth Mcllwaine (1732-1793)
(daughter of John McHwaine and Margaret (Scott) Mc-
llwaine, of Tifannan, near Londonldferry, Ireland. A will
executed in 1773 by her father, John Mcllwaine, shows
tha he possessed a large property in money, lands and
leases). They had children:
I JOHN RHEA,
II MATTHEW RHEA IV,
III MARGARET RHEA,
256
Digitized by VjOOQIC
RHEA
IV WILLIAM RHEA,
V JOSEPH RHEA,
VI ELIZABETH RHEA,
VII SAMUEL RHEA,
VIII JAMES RliEA.
Joseph Rhea gra-duated at the University of Glasgow,
ScoHand, with honor aridl distinction, in 1742; was a
minister of the Presbyterian Qhurch and had charge of a
chtipch at Fahan, Ireland, ait the time he resigned to go to
America.
Rev. Joseph Rhea with his wife and childt^n, John,
Matthew, Margaret, William, Joseph, Elizabeth, (Samud
and James were born later in America) , sailed from Ireland
and) landed in America, at Philadelphia, in 1769.
He commenced preaching in Piney Cree-k, Maryland, in
1772. In 1775 he went to the Hoteton, Country, Tennessee,
to locate land, and there purchased €tbaut two thousand
acres of lajid. In 1776 he joined as 'Qhaplain, the troops
under Col. Ohristian, and in this capacity caflmpaigned into
Virginia and Tennessee,
There is maich in Drapers Mss. (Historical Society,
Madison, Wisconsin), about Ghrisllian's Oherokee Company.
The following is cited from an orderly book, once the
propert" of Gapt. Joseph Martin :
**Six Mile Camp, Oct 5, 1776.
"Parole William Burge.
General Orders:
'*Mr. Ray will preach on the Augusta Line at one o'clock,
and Mr. Oummins on the Fincastle Line. All others who
choose to attend may do it.
*The church will be at the time to give warning, the
men to attend wilh their arms by companies, and to ob-
serve as much decency and regularity as the ground will
admit of."
In their capaciy as chaplains, at this time, Rev. Rhea
and Rev. Gummins were the first ministers to preach in the
territory that is now Tennessee.
Rev. Joseph Rhea died in Piney Greek, Maryland, in 1777.
In the following year, 1778, his family moved, by
wagons, to the land in Sullivan County, Tennessee, which
he had purchased and which is still in possession of hiii
descendants.
Rev. Joseph Rhea becaine the founder of a large family
257
Digitized by VjOOQIC
NOTABLE SOUTHERN FAMILIES
which residles, principally, in Tennessee and* Virginia. His
•descendan'ts are more numerous than those of the other
emigres of the Rhea family.
I JOHN RHEA
I John Rhea, first child of Rev. Joseph Rhea and Eliza-
befch (Mcllwaine) Rhea, was born in 1753 in Ireland, and
died in 1839 in Sullivan County, Tennessee. He graxtuated
at Princeton in 1789. He and his father wei'e notenl Hi- L^Jin
and Greek sohol'ars. land u^hil<* John was in Gen. Wnshing-
ton's army they corresi)onde.d in La'lln. A letter from the
father, dated April 19, 1777, ends 'ihus: ''Benigmis esto illi
qui h<os'tili tibi."
John Rhea assisted in the organization of the state of
Tennessee, and the writing of i/ts constitution, i\\u\ was.
ohosen the first repr scnla ive from Sullivan Oounty to the
legislature. When Tennessee was divided into three Con-
gressional Districts John Rhoa, in 1803, was elected to Con-
gress from the First District, where he starved' with distinc-
tion. In 1815 he accepted an appointment from the Presi-
dent, James Madison, as a commissioner to treat with the
'Ohoctaw Indians, but in 1817 was returned to Congress
where he continued to serve until 1823 Avhen he retired Ux
private life.
He was a JefTersonian democrat and a frionrf of Andrew
Jackson.
Rhea County, Rhoatown and Rhea S])rings, Tennessee,
were natmed in his honor.
He died, unmarried, and left a very large estate in lands,^
much of which had b(MMi Government grants for special
services renrifered. (Ra/msey's History of Tennessee, Por-
ter's His'lory, Historic Sullivan).
II MATTHE\\' RHEA IV
II Matthew Rhea IV (1755.18i()), (son of Rev. Josei)lh
Rhea and Elizabetlh (Mcllwaine) Rhea) married (1778)
Jane Preston (a sister of Robert Preston who married III
Margaret Rhea). They had children:
1 Joseph Mathew Rhea.
2 Robert Preston Rhea,
3 Margaret Rhea,
4 Matthew Rhea V.
1 Joseph MalOhevv Hh(»a (1789-1860), married (1806)
Catherine Myers (daughter of Charles Myers and Annie
258
Digitized by VjOOQIC
RHEA
(Case) Myers). According to tradition they heid eleven child-
ren, names of six known : ( 1 ) Emma Rhea ; (2) Edmund R hea ;
(3) Jane Rhea; (4) Eleanor Rhea; (5) Margaret Rheaj (6)
WaltoF Preston Rhea (1831-1897), who marri|d Sarah Jane
Pile. T)hey moved from Tennessee to Arkansas, in 1866.
They 'had children: (a) Laura Ella Rhea (1856-), (married
R. A. Robbins. Children : Maulde Ethel, Lillian, Bernice
Preston, Sarah, Neill Rhea, Pauline Elizabeth and Alfred
Gerald); (b) David Qharles Rhea (1858-), (m^rded M.
Ripetoe) ; (c) Joseph Matthew Rhea (I860-), (married
Alice Powell. Children: Preston. David, Samuel and Vir-
ginia Lee) ; ((di) Margaret Lillias Rhea (1862-), (married A.
W. Ellis. Children: Eula Maude and Maggie Lee); (e)
Edmund George Rhea; (f) Elizabeth Eleanor Rhea (1868-),
(married E. N. Keiger) ; (g) Robert Preston Rhea; (h)
Kittie Rhea; (i) Oscar Lee Rhea (1876-), (married Jennie
Rand. Children: Orion, Lucile and Walter Preston); (j)
Holmes Cans Rhea (1878-), («marri€*d Ethel Waters. Cvhild-
ren : Lelia, Hugh and Edknund) .
2 Robert Preston Rlhea (1791-1872), married (1868)
Nancy Davidson. Children: (1) Jane Rhea, who married
Dr. Rivers; (2) Josiah Davicteon Rhea; (3) Sarah Rhea,
who married Jackson; (4) John Preston Rhea, who
married Matilda Longacre; (5) Matthew Rhea VI, who
married Sallie Rlhea, no isswe; (6) Robert Oamphell Rhea
M. D. (1837-1911), who married Margaret Caroline Mc-
Queen, and had children: (a) Samuel Robert Rhea (1868-),
(married Nellie Hendrickson. Ohildren: 'Caroline, Robert
Randolph and Margaret) ; (b) Mary Elizabeth Rhea (1869-),
(married Dr. Joseph Shoun Donnelly. Children: Irene,
Harrison Rhea and Margaret Edith) ; (c) Nancy Martitia
Rhea (1871-), (married Dr. Oharles Meigs Dulaney. Child-
ren: Charles Meigs Dulaney II, Robert Nathan, William
Davis, Mary Elizabeth, John' Jay, Laura and James Rhea) ;
(d) Margaret Bell Rhea (1873-) ; (e) Josiah Davidson Rhoa;
(T) Prances Pres'fon Rhea; (g) John Wayne Rhea; 'h)
Charles Caldwell Rhea; (i) Edwin Bruce Rhea; (j) Eleanor
Campbell Rhea (1885-), (married William C. Wri;2:hf..
Child: Oharles McO"<^n) ; (k) Beulah Carolyn Rhvi
(1890) ; (7) Margf^rel: Rhea, ni^ver married.
3 Margaret Rhea married Fickle and nntl i ir^
son, Robert P. Fickle.
4 Matthew Rhea V (1705-1870), married (1818) Mary
Looney. of Middh^ Tennessee. Mat'.hevv Rhea V was bora
259
Digitized by VjOOQIC
NOTABLE SOUTHERN FAMIUES
near Bluff Oity, Sullivan County, Tennessee. Moved to
West Tennessee about 1836. Was President of ttie Female
Institute of Somerville. He was a man of great learning
and took an especial interest in history. Assisted by his
coaisin, Matfcliew Campbell Rhea, he made the fir^t map of
*he stia'te »of Tennessee. He waj3 a man of great learning
during the War Between the Stal'es. He had children: (I)
Margaret Rhea (1820-1880); who married twice: Pir^t,
Nicholas Long; Second, James Dysart Rhea, (son of William
Rhea and Elizabeth (Bred-en) Rhea). By her first hiisbmd
»he had one child, Nicholas M. Long II (1849-), (married E.
Shirley Wilson. Nicholas M. Long II is an omi'jent
minister of the Presbjierian Church and lives in Memphis^
Tennessee. He haft children : Richard, Margaret Rhoa.
Shirley W. (1888-), Walter Preston (1889- ), Phelos W.
(1891-), Frances M. (1893-) and Emma Law). By hei-
second husband s^he had one child, Matthew Belm-ont Rh\'i;
(2) Elizabeth Rhea (1822-1892), who married John Rh?a
(son of William Rhea and Elizabeth (Breden) RheaK
Children und'er John Rhc^a; (3) Ellen Preston Rhea; ''4)
Sarah Li^cinlJa Rhea, no issue; (5) John William Rhea
(1828-), who married Italia G. Porter, and had diildr^n:
William, Annie, Lillian and Pearl; (6) Abrani Rhea (1830-
1912), who married Bnmia Cross, and had children: (a)
Matthew D. Rhea; (b) William Rhea; (c) Jennie ..ou Rhi^a
(1874-), (married George T. Wehb. Child'ren: Abruii ilhea
and Virginia); (d) Riohard Cary Rhea (1877-i, (m.irrjod
Mrs. Mattie L. Anders-on. Children: Loaiise and Riohard
Cary Rhea II) ; (e) Frank P. Rhea; (f) Nell C. Rhea ( '^Sl-),
(married E. L. Stewarldi) ; (g) Elizabeth Rhea (1883-),
(married G. L. Rhodes, and had one child, Albert H.) ; (h)
Ruby F. Rhea; (7) Mathew Rhea VI, died without issue;
(8) Mary Annis Bhea; (9) Samuel Doak Rhea; (10)
Jennett Preston Rhea; (11) Walter Preston Bhea (1841-
1880), who married Jennie Edmondson, (daughter of Wil-
Mam G. Edmondson and Susie E. (Rhea) Edmondson 'and
had children: (a) Hugh Preston Rhea (1871-1901), (mar-
rieid Louise Brown, and had one child, Hugh Preston Rhea
II) ; (b^ William Edmondson Rhea; (c) Susie Bowen Rhea
(1875-), (married Thomas Buford. Children: John Ed-
mondson, Clara May and Thomas EMmondson) ; ('d) Mamie
Looney Rhea (1877-), (married Lunsford Y. Williamson,
and had one child, Jean Rhea) ; (e) Walter Preston Rhea II
(1879-), (married Mazie Sale. •Qhild'ren: Walter Preston
Rhea III and Henry Sale Rhea); (12 Ellen Preston Rhea
260
Digitized by VjOOQIC
RHEA
(1844-), who married Hudson Oary, and had children: (a)
Miles Fairfax Gary; (b) Marion Gary; (c) Rhea Preston
Carey (1871-), (married Charlie Ewing) ; (d) Eleanor
Marion Gary (1884-), (married Saonoiel Earnest Ragland'.
Children: Eleanor Marion, Margaret Elizabeth and Fairfax
•Car>'^ ; (e) Hudson Fairfax Gary; (13) Frances Bell V es.
(1848-). Who married James T. Rhea (son of James Dysart
Rhea and Elizabeth (Carter) Rhea). Children under T.
Rhf^a.
HI Margaret Rhea
III Margaret Rhea (1757-1822), (dteLUghter of Rev Jo-
seph Rhea and Elizabeth (Mclhvaine) Rhea). Lived' in
Washington County, Virginia. She married Robert Prestx^n
(1750-1833) (son of Jo»hn Preston and Eleanor (Fairman)
Preston) . They 'had one child, Jchn Preston II.
John Preston II (1781-1864), married (1802) Margaret
Brown Preston, (daughter of Col. Williaan Preston and
Susanna (Smith) Preston) and had chiBdlren:
1 Thomas Preston, has mo living descendteints,
2 Henry Preston,
3 William Alfred Preston,
4 John Preston III, no i-ssue,
5 James T. Preston,
6 Robert Fairman Preston,
7 Frank Preston,
8 Susan Rhea Presbon,
9 Margai'et Rhea Preston.
10 Eleanor Fairman Preston,
H Elizabeth Preston, never married,
12 Walter E. Preston, no issue,
13 Jane Preston,
14 Joseph Preston, never married.
2 Henry Preston (1826-1905), married Ann Garter, and
hiakJ children : (1) Mary Oole» Preston; (2) Margaret Brown
Preston; (3) Elizabeth M. Preston; (4) Ellen Preston, who
married Bailey; (5) Cary Preston; (6) Jane Preston;
(7) Isaetta Preston; (8) Eugenia Preston; (9) Henry Pres-
ton II, who married Nell Carson; (10) Percy Preston.
3 William Alfred Preston (-1864), wlio married twice:
First, Wylie, no issue; Second, BlizabetJi Radford,
ibis cousin, who had one child, William Alfred Preston II.
5 James T. Preston (1824-1883), who marriekH (1850)
Frances Rihea, (daughter of VIH James Rhea and Elizabeth'
(Snapp) Rhea) and bad children: (1) John Preston IV,
261
Digitized by VjOOQIC
NOTABLE SOUTHERN FAMIUES
(1851-), who married Annie Ijewis White, (daughter of
John Preston While and Annie Stuart (Lewis) White).
John Pres^tlon is a physician and Superintendent of State
Insane Asyhmn at Austin, Texas. They have child*ren: (a)
\^ alter White Preston (1880-), (.married Amiie Marie
Fnnierick Bonhan. Children: Walter Bonhan, John Court-
ney, and twins — Frederick Lewis and Frances); (b) Jo'hn
Lewis Preston, M. D. (1^3-), (married Leonora McKellar.
One child: Jahn Lewis Preston II); (c) James Rhea Pres-
ton (1885-) ;(d) Fannie Rhea Preston (1890-); (e) Robert
White Preston (1892-); (f) Annie Lewis Preslon (i898.);
(g) Margaret Lynn Preston (1904); (2) James Rhea Pres-
to4i (1853-), who married Elizabeth Vaughan, and' had
childi-en : Elizabeth McHwaine, Frances Rhea and James
Rhea; (3) Walter Eugene Preston; (4) Robert Fairman
Preston (1857-), who married Elizabetih McDonald Preston,
and had children: Arthur Cunnmings, Mildred, Lucy,
Eleanor Fairman, Fannie auftf a twin, died unnamed, and
Robert Fairman Preston II; (5) Fannie Rhea Preston; (6)
Frances Mcllwaine Preston.
6 Robert Fairman Preston (1805-1889), who married
Sarah Marshdl. Dr. Robert Fairman Preston was an em-
inent physician of Philade<lphia. In 1884 he retired to his
ancestral estate in Virginia, wheire 'he lived ain'til his death.
He had children : (1) Mary Marshall Preston; (2) Elizabeth
Presl'on, who married Dr. Ezra N. Shefley, and had chil'd-
iHMi: (a) Robert Preston Sheffey, (marrieid and had child-
ren : Robert Preston Sheffey II and Margaret Sheffey) ; (b)
Charles Mars^hall Sheffey, (married Carrie Winston); (c)
Sarah Sheffey, (m!arried' Riddle) ; (d) Henry Sheffey,
(married Faith Fulkerson).
7 Frank Preston (1820-1891), who married twice;
First, Virginia Moffet; Second, Mattie Fulton. Ohildren by
first wife: Robert, Frances and John. Child by second
\vrfe : Mary.
8 Susan Rlhea Preston (-1828), who married (1825)
Joseph Campbell Rlhea, (son of IV^ William Rhea and Eliza-
beth (Bredien) Rhea). Children under Joseph Campbell
Rhea.
9 Margaret Rhea Preston, who married (1825) James
Lowry White, of Abingdan, Virginia. Children: (1) Eliza-
beth Wilson White (1827-1902), who married David C.
Cummings, and had children : (a) James White €ummings,
M. D. (18^), (married twice: First Elizabeth Madison
Preston, no issue; Second, Fannie Clark, and had ohildren:
262
Digitized by VjOOQIC
RHEA
Frances, Mai*y Oanipbell and Eliza Preston) ; (b) Robert P.
Cummings (1858-), (married Susie Kellar. One diild,
Arthur Cunnuings) ; (c) David G. Oummings II; (2) Mar-
garet Rhea White (1828-), who miarried Gen. W, Y. C.
HuTiif»s, and had children: James Lowry and Newton; (3)
Jane (^onn White, mamed John Ck>rdon Ogden; (4) Joihn
Pr.^ston While (1832-1904), wbo married Annie Stuart
L?\Vis, his cousdii, (daugWer of John B. Lewis and his
second wife, Mrs. (Proline Smith, nee Thompson). He
lived at Abingdon, Virginia, later Austin, Texas. He had
children: (a) James Lewis \\''hite (1857-), (married Ellen
UouglGS Clark. (:Jhil*en: Annie Preston White (1880-),
who married Dr. George Gilbert Oawford, and had child-
ren: Ellen niark, Annie Preston, James Jaimison and Jean
Maxwell; Golin Oarke White (1884-), who married Ethel
Hallomn, and *had one child, Phyllis) ; ('b) Annie Lewis
White (18()1-), (ouarrie* Ur. JoJin Preston, (son of James T.
Preston and Frances (Rihea) Presdon) Children under Dr.
John Preston); (c) Milton White; (d) Mary Magdalene
While (18(57-), (married Benjamin MiUs Crenshaw. Child-
ren: >Benjanrin Mills CnMishaw II and Margaret White Cren-
shaw) ; ((») \>'alter Lewis White; ff) Montgomery Lewis
White (1871-1916), (married Mary Bell Nelson. One child,
Lewis Nelson White); (g) Bessie I^lia White (1883-) ; (5)
James Lowry White I; no issue; (6) William Young Oonn
White, M. \)\ (18a5.1904), who married Elizabeth Gampbell
Carter, and had children: (a) Stuart White (1870-), (mar-
ried Emily West); (b) Pauline Campbell White (1871-),
married Thomas Hill Mason) ; (7) Ellen Sheffey ^^^hite
(1836-191:^), Who married Dr. Edward Campbell, and had
children: " (a) Daniel Trigg Campbell; (b) Edward Don€tld
Gampl>ell; (c) Margaret Preston Campbell (1863-), (mar-
ried (]ol. Laureiis W. Youraans. Children : McDonald Camp-
bell, Margaret Preston and Lueile, who married Walter
Haines); (d) Bessie Cumoiings Campbell (1866-) (married
Henry Ramsey Lenoir, Ohildren : Ellen White Lenoir
(I890-); Virginia Ballard Lenoir (1894-) who married'
Wyall H. Stover; Edward Campbell Lenoir (1896-)); (e)
Susie Ti'igg Campbell (1868-), (married' Edwin Elisha
Hundley, i^lhildren: Elizabeth Estes (1895-), Campbell
(1890-)', Margaret Preston (1898-) and FVances Edmunds
(1902-)); (f) William W'hdte Campbell (1869-), (married
Hallie MeCracken. One child, Mary Ellen) ; (g) Josephine
Trigg Campbell; (h) James White Campbell; (i) Frank
Oarapbell (1871-), married SaWie Jonetl. Ohildren: JoneW,
263
Digitized by VjOOQIC
NOTABLE SOUTHERN FAMILIES
Ellen Frances and Malcolm "* ; (j) Preston While Campbell
(1874-), (married Louise Howard. Children: Preston
Whiite and Edwiard Malcolm) ; (k) Malcolm Campbell, M. D.
(1875-), (married' Charlotte Lue'lla Brader) ; (8) Susan
Pr^'ston Wihite (1838-1908), who married Abram Byrd
TVig, (1872-), (married Robert R. Campbell) ; (b) Margaret
Prf^ston Trigg.
10 Eleanor F'airman Preston (-1887), who married
(1835) Judge James Shefl'ey. Children: (1^ Margaret
Sheffey (1836-1869), who marritnl Col. William E. Peters,
and had children: James White Sheffey ani' William
Edgar; (2) J^)hn Preston ShelTey (1837-), who marri»*d
Josephine Spiller, and had children: (a) MarganM Peters
Sheffey (1865-), (married Percy C. March); (b) Eleanor
Fai'iTnan Sheffey (1866-), (married B. F. Buchanan. Child-
rein: John Prestion Buchanan, wttitj married and had
ohiktren : Eleanor Paimian and John Preston Buchanan
H; Josephine Spiller Buchianan; Clampbell Buchanan;
Virginia Buchanan; Frank Buchanan; Nellie Buchaujin;
David Buchanan); (c) Susie Mt^nitgonif^rj- Sheffey
(1867-), (marrie'd Dr. E. M. Copfnihaver. Childivn: Prestoii
and Elizabeiili Marci^llus) ; (d) Josephine Spiller Sheffey;
(c) James White Sheffey (1871-). (marriod Lucy Lee Car-
lock. Children Lucy l^ee, Caroline, James White Sheffey II,
Josephine Spiller White, F^leanor Fairman and Harold Car-
lock) ; (f) Miriam Shf^ffey; (g) John Pi^ston Sheffey 11
(1876-), (married Mrginia Harrington. Child'ten: Mar-
gaivt and Virginia); (3) Jane Sheffey; (4) Elizabeth Sh»^f-
fey (1842-1875), who married Maj. James A. G. Pendleton,
andi had one child, James Sheffey Pendleton, (1874-) who r
married Margaret Fudge, and had children: Albert C,
Blizabetth and Granville F.; (5) Ellen White Sheffey (H;3-.
19(34), who married Jos(»ph Brainard Bhea, (son of lev..
Samuel Rhe?i and his second wife, Martha (Lyim) Rhe.i).
Children under Joseph Brainard Rhea; (6) Mary Sheffey
(1844-1906), who married Ool. William E. Peters, ( whose
first wife had beeii her sister, Margaret), and had one child:
Don Preston Peters (1887-), who married Rhetta Ghangh.
and had children: Marv Peters and Don Presbon Peters II;
(7) Mariha Sheffey (1840-1899), who married Robert J.
Preston, M. I)., aind had children: (a) Eleam)r Fainnan
Preston (1876-), (married Dr. J. T. X^'atkuis. ChUdren:*
James Thomas Watkins II, Robert Sheffey, \^'iHiaJn and
Sherman); (b) Robed ShefTey Preston (1885-). (married-
264
Digitized by VjOOQIC
RHEA
Alice Reed) ; (8) Virginia Sheffey (1850-), who married H.
B. Mailer.
13 Jane Preston, who mairied twice: Pirs^t, James B.
Craigliead; Second, Marsihall, no issue. Children by
first husband : David, John, Jennie, James, Preston and
Tho«ias.
IV WILLIAM RHEA
IV William Rhea, (1761-1836), (son of Rev. Joseph
Rhea and Elizabeth (Mcllwaine) Rhea^. He was married
(1795) to Elizabeth Breden (1766-1835), who was born in
Ireland and died in Tennessee. They lived on the dd farm
OB Beaver Greek, Sullivan County, Tennessee, and had
«hild<ren :
i Margaret Breden Rhea,
2 Elizabeth Rhea,
3 Joseph Oampbell Rhea,
4 Jamies Dv«art Rhea.
5 Williajn R. Rhea, ' •
6 Frances Rhea,
7 John Rhea II.
1 Margaret Breden Rhea (1798-1864), married (1828/
Samuel Wood Netherland, and had children: (1) Elizabeth
Rhea Netherland (1830-1896), who married William Phillip
Brewer, and had ohild'ren: (a) Marg«8.ret Duilleld Brewer
(1852-), (married Rev. James Ghakners Cowan. Ohildren:
William Meljamin Cowan (1876-), Robert L. Cowan
(1880-), who married Bessie Bro»\^'n; FVed G. 'Oowan
(1882-), who married Grace Brisbo; Sidnev K. Cowan
(1884-^, ; Hugh Brewer Gowan (1886-)); (b) Eva Neil
Brewer (1854-), (married Henry H. Newman); (c) Samuel
Xefherland Brewer: (d) John Alf Brewer (1859-), married
Willie Sue Hoge.* Children: Bessie (1884-), who married
J^hn Alf Muse, and had children: Eliza B., J'ames Arthoir,
Mar>' Minttola and John Alf Maise II; Mary Eva Brewer
* 1885-), who 'married Herbert G. Marcy, andi had ehild^ren:
John .\rban and Herbert G. Marcy II; Horen Hoge Brewer
• I885-), who married Jamie Badiman; William Phillip
Brewer; A. Thelma Brewer; (e) Benjamin Willis Brewer;
»f) James King Brewer (1864-), (married Mary Olive Gar-
liiek. Children: James Carl ock (1896-1918), Oatherine t-
N. Loui«e and Douglas G.; (g) Haitie Adelaide Brewer
(I864-), (twins of James. King Brewer), (married- Dr. Jo-
seph S. Bachnvan. Ohildren: Harry W., Phillip M., Joseph
S. Bachman II, anid Ellizabeth) ; (h) Nicholas Vance Brewer;
265
Digitized by VjOOQIC
NOTABLE SOUTHERN FAMILIES
(2) Harriet Samuel Woods Netherfand, who mamed John G.
Ring (brother of James King) , and had children : (a) Lynn
King (1857-), (married Joseph W. Owen. Children:
Hattie King (1890-) and Rively King (1892-)); (b) Haftie
Goodson King (1858-), (marrieicJ Hugh W. Taylor); (c)
EMa Waltkins King (1800-), (maTr^ied Dr. Frank Maxwell
Ohildren: Evelyn King Maxwell (1891-), (who married
E. Harris; Annie Maxwell (1893-)); (d) Samuel Lee King
(1863-), (married Annie Phipps. (ihildrvn: Samuel Lee
King II, Johii G. King and Oharles Logan King).
2 Elizabe^h Rhea (1798- 185(5), married Reyburn
Ruchanan, an<l' had - children : ( 1 ) Elizabeth Buchanan
(1828-1900), who married James Ki«ig II, (brothe«r of John
G. King, who married Harriet Saftnuel Womis Xetherland),
and had children: (a) Jaanes King III; (b) William Rr-
burn King; (c) Mioajah Watkins King, (married Robert
Hanlzell Gray. Ohildren: Williaan Micajalh, Jaimes King,
John Buchanan, Qampbell Watkins, Elizabi^th and Roi)erl
Hartzell Cray II); (d) Margaret Elizalx^th King; (e) John
Buchanan King, (jnarried Louise Barrett) ; (2) Williain
Buchanan, \v1ho married Addie Hill, and had ohldren: (a)
John Hill Buohanan; (b) Eli;5abeth Rhea Buchanan; (c)
Nellie Scott Buchanan, (married John B. McOord) ; (d)
Margaret ShaniK)n Buchanan, (married Stuiiu Oarson.
One child, Clifton); (e) William Harvey Buchanan; (3)
John Buchanan, wh-o married Mattie Gross, and had child-
ren : Ryburn DcBarry, Williani Lane, Edward King, Sarah
Elizabeth, Annie Green, PannSe Linn and' John Matthew.
3 Joseph Oampbell Rhea (1800-1853), married twice:
First, Susan Rhea Preston (-1828) (daughter of Robert
Preston and Margaret (Rhea) Preston) ; Ma'rried second,
(1830) Catherine Reynolds (-1857). Joseph Oampbell Rhea
lived in Sullivan Oounfy, Tennessee, unliil 1841 wheii he
moved to Giles County, Tennessee, where resicted until his
death. He assisted his cooisin, Martthew Rhea, in making
the first map of Tennessee. He was colonel in the Tennes-
see Mililia. By his first wife he had diildren: (1) Margaret
Rhea, who married Dr. Ezra N. Sheffey (wiiose second wife
was Rlizabeth Preston, daughter of Robert Fairman Prest4)n
and Sarah (Mars'hall) Preston), and had children : William,
EUzabeth and John Preston; (2) Susan E. Rhea (1828-
1860), who married Wiiliaaii Campbell Ednionldson, and
had children: (a) Jo»hn Presto-n Edmonson, (no living de-
scendants); (b) Jennie Edmonson (1851-1919), (married
Walter Preston Rhea, son of Matthew Rhea II and Mary
266
Digitized by
Google
RHEA
(Looney) Rhea. CJhiMlren under Walter Preston Rhea);
(c) Lo»uise Smyth Edmonson, (^married Williaflii Abram
Rhea, a cooisin. No issue) ; (3) Willmm Rhea, never mar-
Tied. Joseph Rhea by his second wife, Catherine Reynolds,
h'ad child'ren : (4) Jaimes David Rhea (1838-1882), who mar-
ried Bettie Buford (d!aug*hter of Hon. Thomas Buford of
Gides County, Tennessee), and had children: (a) James
Buford Rhea; (b) ClifTo^d Rhea (1866-), (married Delia
Donovan. Children: Margaret (1898-), Clifford Campbell
(1900-), David (1901-), Mamie Louise (1902-), Annie Deliav
(1905-), Joseph (1908-) and Edw^ard Buford (1910-)); (c)
Annie Rhea (1868-), (married William Presley Dabney.
One child, William Rhea Dabney (1892-)); (d) James
Davi'd Rhea II (1870-), (married Sadie Gardner. Ohiildren :
James David Rhea III, William Gardner Rhea and Joseph
Oaimpbell Rhea. Janies David Rhea III, a medical student
Van(ie»r»biW University, is the only first year man lo receive
Foundiers Medal for Oratory) ; (e) Frank Buford Rhea; (f)
Bessie Buford Rhea; (g) Joseph Campbell Rhea (1877-),
(married Addie Martha Booth. Child: Buford Booth Rhea.
Joseph Campbell Rhea graduated in Law at Harvard
University, his son Buford, is now a studtent at Leland
Stanford University) ; (h) Louise Buford Rhea (1880-),
(mlarried" Harry H. Chandler. Children: Bettie Buford
(1905-) and Annie Rhea (1913-)) ; (i) Mary Sumpter Rhea,
(who died yo«ung) ; (5) Mary A. Rhea (1840-), who marritxi
(1857) Dr. James A. Sumpter (-1885), and had children:
( a) Edward Randolph Sumpter-, M. D., (1858-1917), (mar-
ried (1885) Minnie Wade. Ohildten: James A. Sumpter II
(1888-), who married Iterta Porter, and had one child:
James A. Sumpter III (1916-) ; Ella Srum-pter (1890-), who
married Wv^ker, and had one child, William Wyker II
(1913-) ; Mary Sumpter (1829-) ; EdKvard Randolph Sump-
ter II (1898-)) ; (b) Bulah Sumpter (1863-), (married
(1887) Edgar Anderson (-1911). Children: James Sumpter
(1893-) and Mary Frances (1903)); (c) William D. Sump-
ter, M. D., (1872-), (married (1902) Tommie Wrenn,
(daughter of Thomas Wrenn, of Nashville. Children:
raara (1903-), Tom (1906-) and Mary Rhea (1910-). Dr.
Sumpter is an eminent surgeon and member of the board
of the Protestant Hospital at Nashville, Te-nnessee) ; (d)
Joseph Rhea Stimpter (1874-1913), (married twice: First,
Julia Flounoy (-1900); Second, L. May Hayes. No issue);
(6) Ellen Rhea (1846-), wiio married (1871) Oscar Aber-
pathy, and had children: (a)Katherine Abernathy (1872-),
Digitized by VjOOQIC
NOTABLE SOUTHERN FAMILIES
(married Will Parmer. One ctiil'd', KaWierine (1913-)); (b)
Mary Abernathy (1874-), (married Bayless Froman) ; (c)
Nellie Abernathy (1878-), (married D. Landis) ; (d) Oscar
Abernathy II (1881-), (married Annie Adams); (7) Wil-
liam Sajnuel Rhea (1840-1894), who married (1876) Ida
Eiidora Osborne, an<d"had children: (a) Caleb Osborne
Rhea, M. D. (1877-), (married Margaret Donelson. Chil-
dren: Caleb Osborne Rhea II (1912-) and Samuel Donald-
son Rhea (1910-)); (b) Erma Valena Rhea (1879-), (mar-
ried G(H)rge Reed. Children: Ida Catherine (1902-) and
Erma Rhea (1912-)); (c) Edlw^ard SiHni)ter Rhea (1882-),
(married Hannah Smith. Children: Robert (1908-), Alice
Cordelia, (died voamg), Helen Pearl (1912-) and David
Osborne (1914-)); (d) William Samuel Rhea II (1885-),
(married Haltie Miller. One child, William Samuel Rhea
III (1912-)); (e) David Rankin Rhea (1886-), (married
Vernon Porter. One Child, RobfTt Porter Rhea (1914-));
(f) Alvvjn Porter Rhea, died >x)ung; (g) Alice Ga;fherine
Rhea, (di(»d' >x)ung).
4 James Dysart Rhea (1802-1886), married twice:
First, (1831) Elizabeth Carter; Second, (1858) Margaret
Long, nee Rhea. Children by first wife: (1) Matilda Wendel
Rhea, dit^' withooit issue; (2) William Rhea, never married ;
(3) ElizatK^th Rhea (1836-), who married^ Beverly Norvell,
and had children: Miaude, Maggie Lou, Adah, Mary, Clara,
Frank and Wade; (4) Alfred Rhea, never married'; (5)
Margaret Rhea (1840-1912), who mairied (1863) Byron
Giggs McDowell, and e'hildTen : (a) James Rhea McDowell,
(died w ithout iss-ue) ; (b) Irene McDowell; (c) Albert
Sidney McDowell, (1870-), (married Inez Carter. One child,
Marjorie Carter); (d) ^>liza•be^h McDowell (1868-), (mar-
ried James B. Ly^ons. One child, McDowx*H (1895-)); (e)
Mary Evr McDowell (1875-), (married William S. Stuart.
One child, Ellen Irene) ; (f) Margaret Rhea McDowell
(1880-), (married William Ferguson. Children: Margaret
and Robert) ; (0) John H. Rhea, never married'; (7) Sarah
F. Rhea; (8) Janu^ T. Rhea (1847-1914,) who married
Frances Bell Rhea, (daught^T of Matthew Rhea and Mary
(Looney) Rhea), and 'had childiren: (a) James Rhea, (died
young) ; (b) Alfred Long Rh^^, (married Mary Wauohope.
Children: James Taylor Rhea II, Katherine Wauchope,
Mar>^ Frances and Ellen Preston) ; (c) Mary Ellen Rhea,
(married Dr. John Kerr Crawford. Ohildren: Mary
Frances, Louise Edlmons'on, Eleanor, James Taylor, Mary
Rhea and John Kerr Crawford II) ; (d') James Dysart Rhea
268
Digitized by VjOOQIC
RHEA
II, (married Jesse Hearn. One child, Jessie Hearn) ; (e)
Howard Matthew fthea, (married Wimelmina Liiterer. One
ohild, Elizabeth Weaver) ; (9) Mary Ellen Rhea (1849-1882),
who married Edward Andiersan MoClellan, and had chil-
dren: (a) Samuel David McClelHan (1880-), (married Mary
Effie Sugle. Ohildren: William Edward McOMlan (1.S95-),
wiho married Glara Isabella Sims, and* h^d one diild, Mary
Evedyn); (b) James Nicholas McQellan (1872-1912),
(mai^ried Almira Levenia Benham. Ohildren: Bertha Eliza-
beth McGlellan (1894-), wbo married Thiomas Hubbard, and
had ohildren: James Ue Verne and Burnidene; Howard
Plomey McGleJKan (1895-), who married S^ah Burton, and
had ohildren: Madge Lorain and Mildred Bettie; Lora
Irene MoClellan (1898-), who married' Avery Morton Slifl-
don; (c) John Looney McClellan (1874-), (married Myrtle
Benner) ; (d) Margaret Elizabeth McClellan (1S77 i, )mi:'
riod William Edward Cogswell. 'Ohildren: John Mc-
McCldlan, Levc^t DeVere, Morton Ed'w^rd and Alice Rhea) ;
(e) /Vbraham Rlhea McClelkn (1879-), (marvi(»d Georgia
IX^sgraiiger. Children: J. Wallace. Walter Rhfa and
Hugh).; (f) Edward Anderson MfOlellan (1882-), (married
Grace Edric Helms. One ohild, Rialph Edwirdi; i^lO)
Susan Elizabeth Rhea (1853-1905); James Dysart Rhea by
his seoond wife had one chiliJ, Matthew Belmont Rhea, diiHcl
young.
5 William R. Rhea (1804-1 861), married (1833) iMaiy
Ann Mosiley Rockhtrfd. (sister of Ruth Rockhold who mar-
ried John N. Rhea), and had children: (1) Harriet Nether-
land Rhea (1834-1880), who married' Dr. John W. Sohorn.
Children: (a) Charles Lee Seihorn (1863-), (married ilella
Amos. Children: Howard Rhea (1891-), Charles I^e
Se-horn II, died young, and Thomas Lund (1903-)); (b)
John Sehoru, (married Sue Addie Susong) ; (2) Elizabeth
Breden Rhea; (3) Frances Ruth Rhea (1838-1904), w^ho
married Oscar Marville Le^is, M. D. Children: (a) Wil-
lia:m Dulaney Lewis; (b) Mary Cecelia Lewis (1866-), mar-
rieni John M^ Lyon. Children -^ Rhea B. Lyon (1885-), who
married A. Maney, and had children : datihline, Powler,
James an»d: John,; John P. Lyon (1887-), Jessie Lewis Lyon
(1889-), who married R. Burton, and had children: Lamar
and Marie; Earnest J. Lyon (1892-) ; A. Ruth Lyon (1896-^,
wiio married W. McNew, and bad one child, B. Riuth) ; (c)
Harriet Elizabeth Lewis (1867-), (married D. Riley Proffltt.
Ohildirti^i : flilene, Vivian, Ruth and Harriett) ; (d) Ida
Lee Lewis, not married; (e) Oscar Rlhea Lewis (1872-),
269
Digitized by
Google
NOTABLE SOUTHERN FAMIUES
(married Margaret W. Ray. OMWren: Dora, Elizabeth,
Ralph, Margaret, Joe Lee, Oliver and John Rhea) ; (f) Dora
Lynn Lewis ( 1 874- i{X)2), (married George W. Anglon) ; (g)
George Gertrude Leuis (1877-^ (married Samuel Glav"k)n
Riddle. (Siildren : PhyUie Cecelia, Oscar Lewis and Fran y^
Margaret); (h) Oharfes Grant Lewis; (4) William Rook-
hold Rhea (1840-1003), married twice: First, Sue NeU\*r-
lajid; Second, Margaret R. Garr, no issue. By his fiinst wife
he had one child : May Rhea, who married Dr. Robert Lee
Gallaher; (5) George Duffleld Rhea, who married Mrs.
Lottie Jane Rhea, nee Ross, widow of his brolher James
Gampbell Rhea). No issue; (6) Joseph Cunningham Rhea;
(7) John Adolphus Rhea (1848-1903), who married Lora
Abernathy, (see Donaldson Family) , and had children : (a)
WiJliaim Abernathy Rhea (1882-1913), (pnarried Daisy
Vaughn Hasson. No issue); (b) Mary Rhea; (c) John
Rhea; (c) John Rhea); (8) Charles Rhea (1853-1890), who
married Emma Sarah R-obertson, and had one chil'd: Hattie
Mabel Rhea (1883-), (who married aaiide BenneM. Chil-
dren: Rhea Worth and Sarah Bess); (9) James Campbell
Rhea (1855-1912), v\tho married Lottie Jane Ross, and had
chil<(}ren: (a) George Sehorn Rhea (1882-), (married twice:
First, Alma Petty; Second, Emma Jones. Ohild'ren by first
wife : James Olarence, Oh'ades William and George Himier.
By second wife, one child, EldHdge) ; (b) WiUiam Rock-
hoM Rhea II (1887-), ((married Blva Blalack. Children:
Roger Jackson, Rita Aline and Elizabeih Uoyd) ; (c)
Charles Lyon Rhea (1889-), (married WiJlie Kate Blalack).
(> Frances Rhea (1808-1854), married Montgomery
Ii*vin, and hadi children: (1) Elizabeth* I rvin; (2) WiHiam
Rhea Irvin (1875-), who married Josephine Eariey, and had
children: James and Mary; (3) Maggie Irvin (1844-), who
married Oapt. George W. Allen, and had ohild'ren: Annie
Mairj% Cora, Willie V. aiudi Llillie, (4) Mary R. Irvin (1840-),
who married William Abram Rhea, (sonof John Rhea and
Elizabeth (Rhea) Rhea). Ohild'ren under William Abram
Rhea; (5) Sarah Irvin (1849-), 'wiho married Samaiel Wood
Rhea, (son of John Nancy Rhea and Mary (Rockhold)
Rhea). Children undier Safnuel Wood Rhea.
7 John Rhea (1811-1862), married (1840) Bliza'beth
Rhea, (daughter of M'atflhew Rhea V and Mary (Looney)
Rhea), and had children: (1) Mary Elizabeih Rhea, never
married; (2) William Abram Rhea (1844-1869), married
twice: Fir^t, Mary R. Irwin; Second Louise Edmondson.
Children by first wife: (a^ Elizabeth Rhea (1870-), (mar-
270
Digitized by
Google
RHEA
ried Thomas Delany Gabb. Ohild-pe'n: Mollie Rhea and De-
la ney.) ; (b) Al'lieRiiea; (c) Fannie Rhea (1874-), (married
Sajmwl Taylor. Ohildren: Matthew Edttnund (1899-), Riiea
Venable, Mary Louise, Lois, Jennie and Samuel Ghunn) ;
(di) Harriet Rhea (1876-), (married Arthur P. Winfrey.
Children: Mattie Sweeney, Elizabeth, John Allen, Mont-
gomery- Rhea, Arthur Peter, Harriet and William Rhea) ;
(e) John Montgo(meirj%Rhea; (f) WiilHani Rhea; (g) Jennie
Edmondson Rhea (1883-), (married' Rev. Her-
man A. Butts^; (3) Matthew Robert Rhea (1846-1902),
married Addie Tucker, and had childiren: (a) Thomas
Tucker Rhea (1871-), (married Sue Mae Thomson); (b)
John WiHiam Rhea; (c) Lula May Rhea (1876-1912), (mar-
ried Dr. George M. Shaw\ One child, Lucy Adelaide) ; (d)
Edward Frances Rhea (1878-), (-married Adele Herbert. One
child, Frances Adele) ; (4) Janies Samuel Rhea (1849-
1898), married' Fannie Trotter, and had children: (a) Ben-
jamin Edward Rhea; (b) Matthew Rhea; (c) James Wilson
Rhea (1883-), (married Mary Lou Gross. Ohildren: Frances
Elizabeth, Marion Overton, Sarah BelO, Jaimes Saimuel and
William Gross) ; (d) John Edanondson Rttiea, (married
Fannie Watkins. Ghild'ren: Adldie Frances and Thomas
\\*{iitkins) ; (e) Sarah Bell Rhea, (married Sidney A.
Baynes) ; (f) \\'ilHam Abraham Rhea; (g) Hudson Gary
Rhea; (h) Mar>' Elizabeth Rhea; (i) Robert Henry Rhea;
(5) Margaret Ellen Rhea, never married; (6) Sarah Frances
Rhea (1853-), (marrit^d Henry Harrison Leuis, and had
children: (a) Bessie May Ijewis (1876-), (married Thomas
A. Jayroe. Ohildren: Th«mas A. Jayroe II, Frances L.,
Henry Lewis, Jack G., Robert Rhea, Frank G., and Henry
l^vvis) ; (b) John Hampden Lewis (1878-), (married Lu'la
May Morris. Ghildren: Faimie Lou, William H. and Bes-
sie); (c) Maggie Lou Lewis (1881-), (married Arthur
Fleming. Ghi'ldren: \\'. Arthur, D. Henr>% Gilly M. and
M. Frances) ; (d) James Rhea I^f^wis (1883-), (married Rosa
Revi(»re. Ghildren: James Rhea Lewis II, Oarolea, Jchn
Montgomery and Henry H.) ; (e) Wiltshire M. Lewis (1885-),
(married Margaret Maclin. Ghildren: Robert Spencer and
Henry Harrison) ; (f) GiOy M. Lewis; (g) Matthew H.
Lewis (1891-), (married Mrs. Louise Haj^es Moorer) ; (h)
Gilly G. LeA\Tis; (7) John Rufus W>Ws Rhea (1855-1917),
imiTried twice: First, Tillie Lockett; Second, Eleanor
Lockett, (sister of Tillie Lockett). Ghildren by first wife:
(a) John Lockett Rhea; (b) Frank Lee Rhea (1886-), (mar-
ried Mary Teall. Children : John, Patricia, and^ twins —
271
Digitized by VjOOQIC
NOTABLE SOUTHERN FAMILIES
Gerald and Geraldine) ; (c) Walter H. Rhea; (d) Oscar P.
R'he-a; (e) Lizzie Sue Rhea (1894-), (married Egbert Smilk.
One child: Egbert Franklin) ; (f) Annie Rhea (1897-) ; (*J
Walter Rhea; (9) Lucinda Harriet Rhea.
V JOSEPH RHEA II
V JoseiA Rhea II (1762-1825) , «on of Rev. Joseph Rhi^
and Elizabeth (Mcllwaine) Rhea. H^ marriedi (1789) al
Abingdon, Virginia, Frances Breden (1764-1850). ''Josepk
Rhea and wife, Frances, reared their family in a hous#
w%ich he erected, in 1800, on Back Greek, Sullivan Goiinly,
tliree-foairtihs of a mile from where his father located oa
Beaver Greek. Most of the building was of logs, ceiled insd»»
and' weather-boarded outside. At this time (1915) the house
is in fine condition". ( (extract from letter of William Lyn«
Rhea). Joseph Rhea II had c!hiidren:
1 Elizabeth Rhea,
2 Margaret RJiea,
3 Jo^hn Rhea, died in infancy,
4 Samuel Rhea,
5 Ellen Rhea,
• 6 Fannie Rhea,
7 Nancy Rhea,
8 Robert J. Rhea.
9 Sarah Rhea.
1 Elizabelh Rhea (1789-1853), married twice: FirsL
(1812) Audley Andierson, (brother of Isaac Anderson wii#
married her sister, Margaret) ; Second', Nicholas Fain.
CXiildren by first husband: (1) Fannie Rhea Andersou
(1812-1850), who married 1830) William King McAlister.
and had children: (a) John Audley McAiister, (diefl
young); (b) Harry Hill McAlister (1833-1893), (married
Maggie Shapard. Children: Frances Rhea McAlster (1806-.,
who married Morgan William Brown IV, and had' cshildren:
Morgan William Brown VII (1894-), w?io married' Minni**
Bell, and had children : Morgan Williaim Brown III, diec
in infancy, and Morgan William Brawn IX; Marjorie Mc^
Alister Brown (1895-), who married John Marshall Ewing.
and had one child, John Marshall Ewing II; Harry Hill
McAlister II (1864-), who married Maude Davidson, and
had children: Maud McAllister (1888-), who married
twice: First, Freinklin; Second, Ebbert;
Harry Hill McAliste«r III (1890-) ; Mar-gery McAlister (1892-).
who married Mark W. Libbart^ and^>had dhildren: Mark W-
Libbert I and Margery; Iro Burns McAlister, wlio married
272
Digitized by
Google
RHEA
: ' ■ ' Cox; James Aiken McAlister II (1868-), who maN
red twice: First, M. R. — ; Second, Elizabeth Fry. B^
ftpst wife he had one child, James Aiken McAlister III;
Rachael Garter McAlister (-1911), who married Robert Lee
Durch, and had chilidlren: Robert Lee Buroh II and Hili
McAlister BuTdh) ; (c) Margaret E. McAlister (-.1919),
(married James Erwin. CShildTen: James Erwin II; Wil-
liam McAlister Erwin, (1857-), who married Annie May
Jolly; atiarles Bosley Erwin (1859-) ; Joseph Gibson Erwin
(1861-), who married Clara Davidson, and had children:
Jk>seph Gibson Eirwin II, Robert Davidson Erwin and James
Erwin III; (d) Elizabeth Anderson McAlister (-1919), (mar-
ried Robert Bidd!e. Children: Eliza McAlister Biddle
(1875-), who m*arpied J. Wtoiteford Rnssell; William Kink
Biddle (1876-), who married Netta Russell, and had one
child, Mary Elizabeth) ; (e) Frances Aiken McAlisler
(1840-] (married John F. Wheless. Children: John Whe-
lesis (-1891) and Percy Wheless ; (f) Sarah Lucky McAlister,
(died young) ; (g) James Aiken McAlister; (h) Marion Mc-
Alister (-1890), (married' William Summerfield Savme.
Children: William G. Sawrie (-1906), who married Mamie
Bang; Frances McAlister Sawrie, who married' J. Eaton
Webb, and had children: Marion (1894-) and Frances
(1899)'; Margaret Sawrie, who Tnarried) John T. Henderson,
and had children: Marion McAlister He^nderson (1894-),
who married Edwin Craig, and had children: Maron Hen-
derson Craig, and Margaret Craig; Margaret Henderson,
(1896-), who married William T. Hutoheson, and had one
child, William T. Hiiteheson II; Ideela Sawrie, who mar-
ried Sheffield Olark, and had children : Margaret McAlister
and Sheflield Clark II; Henry Sperry Sawrie, who married
Florence Johnson, and had one child, Florence; Herbert
Sawrie, who married Bessie Beach, and had children : Bes-
sie Beach and ICarnest William) ; (i) Sstmuel McAlister; (j)
William K. McAlister II (1850-), (married Laura Brown
Dortch. Atitomey at law. Served on the bench of the Su-
preme Coiirt of Tennessee. Rceiver for the Tennessee Gon-
tral Railroad Company. He had children : Medora Mc-
Alister (1873-), who married George F. Blackie, and had
one child, Williaim McAlister Blackie; Harry Hail McAlister
(1875-), who married Looaise Jackson, daughter of Judge
Harold E. Jackson, and had children: Mary Jackson,
Loaiise Jackson, and Laura; Samuel Dyisart McAlister
(1868-), who married Evelyn Krumbhaar) ; (k) Florence ^
McAMster; (1) John Walter McAlister; (m) Laidy Louisa
273
Digitized by
Google
NOTABLE SOUTHERN FAMILIES
DeSaulles McAIisler (1850-), (married Lewis Randolph
Donelson. (see Donaldson family). Children: Lewis Ran-
dolph Donelson II (1881-), Elsie Donelson (1883-), Jennio
Donelson and Andrew Jackson Donelson) ; (2) Rebecca
Anderson (1814-1863), who married William B. Gammon,
(brother of Abram Gammon who married her sister, Nancy
An'dterson), and had children: (a) George Gajumon, (mar-
ried Barsheba Rutledge. Children : Robert and Rebecca) ;
(b) Audley Andei^son Gammon (1834-1905), (married Mary
John Farris. Children: William Farris Gammon (I860-),
who marrii»«d twice: Kiisl, Miiini<' Hicks; Second, Ida I>^e
Baumgardner) ; Eliza l{pbecca (lanrmon; Samuel Rhea
Gammon (18()5-), married Iwice: First, Willie Brown
Huimpihreys ; Secand, (Hara Genm^t Moore. "He is the
Honored Rev. Samuel Rhea (ianmion of Lavras, Brazil, one
of th<e highly esteemed missionaries of the Southern Pres-
byterian "(Jhurcih"; N.uinie SjjiMict* Gaimmon(l 867-), married
Charles Edward Gaininoii; Minu'io Ganmiou (1869), married
Dr. Charles K. Kernau); (c) Nancy Gammon; («dl) Sallie J.
Gammon; (e) Elizabeth Gaixmion; (f) William I). Gammon,
^married Aurelia Shi(»lds, daugfhter of Judge J. K. Shields) ;
(g) Frances Gammon, (iiiarrii>d Robert Allen) ; ((h) Abrani
Looney GanKmon; (i) Martha Ellen Gammon, (married'
twice: First, Richard McGhee; Second, John W. Spence) ;
(3) Eliza Rhea And(»i*son (1816-1892), who married Gen.
Richard Gammon Fain (stepbrother), and had children:
(a) Hiram Fain (1834-1869), (married Betiie Lyons. Ohil-
dren: Mattie Matildia Fain, \\iio married Joseph Sevier
Vance, an-d had children: James Foster Vance, Charles
Rulledge Vance (1885-), wiio married Lula Burt Warrick,
and had chldreii: Ethel and Joseph LaFayette; Elizabeth
Lyons Vance (1887-), who married William S. Pierce and
had one child, William Vance Pierce; Samuel Fain Vance
(1893-); David' Lyon Fain (1865-); Sanniel Kemp Fain;
Annie Hiram Fain) ; (b) ElizalM^th Fain; (c) Sarah G. Fain
(1838-1912), (married Oolonel Samuel N. Fain, a distant
relative. Children: Samuel, Sallii\ Eliza Amelia, Mattie,
Frances, Bessie, John and Li<la) ; (d) Nicholas Fain (18i0-
1899), (mairied Annie Kingsbury. Child^ren: Mary,
Richard and Ga^herine^ ; (e^ Samuel Audley Fain; (f)
Isaac Anderson Fain (1844-1917), (married Mattie Jones.
Ohildren: Lillie Bell, who mairied John Bonnett, and had
o-ne diaughter; Richard, Jessie and Olive); (g) iG. Powell
(1846-1914), married Sallip E. Fain. Ohidren: William
Rhea, Robert Rogan, Samuel. Nt^lie Foster, and twins —
Digitized by
Google
RHEA
Richard and Hiram Rathbone and Julia) ; (h) Frances Fain
(1848-1914), (married Amos Lee Smith. Children: Richard
Fain and Lee Jackson); (i) John Fain; (j) Richard' Gam-
mon Fain II (1851-), (married Julia Brace. One child:
Leonhard Brace Fain (1885-), who married , and
had one child, iMary Helen) ; (k) Nancy Anderson Fain
(1854-1876); (1) Ellen Rhea Fain; (m) Eliza Ruth Fain;
(4) Nancy Anderson (1818-), who marriedi Abraham Gaini-
inon. Elizabeth Rhea by her second husband, Nicholas
Fain, had children: (5) Hiram Fain, who married Bettie
Lyons and had two children: Ernest, Lucia, Molly and
Sallie; (6) lizzie Fain, who married^ Rutled'ge Powell, and
had a son who married and had a daughter who
married Walter Lyons.
2 Ma-rgaret Rhea (1791-1883), married (1816) Col. Isaac
Campbell Andierson ('brother of Audley Anderson ^\''ho mar-
ried lier sister, Elizabeth)*. "This family was born and
reared in a house in Sco«tt County, Virginia, which was
formerly used as a block house and fort againis<l the Indians.
It was bouglit by Joseph Anderson, father of Isaac Ander-
son'' (Seldon Nelson, Knoxville Sentinel, 1908). Margaret
Rhea had children: (1) Rebecca Maxwell Anderson (1818-
1893) , who married; Joseph Newland, and had children : (a)
Martha Newland (1836-1911), (married' William A. Dooley.
children, Currell; Ruth; Charles; James Isaac
Andes, and had childre«n: J. Earnest (1890-), Mary Lynn
(1891-)) and George Andes (1894-) ; Rebecca "^Doolev
(1862-1916), who married J. Wright Hoss, and' had chil-
dren: Margaret, J. Wright Hoss II, Stanton M. and Dooley;
Joseph March Dooley (1864-1906), who married Bell
Thoma, and had children : Maude, Who married Leb Hard-
ing, Martin and Joseph Do-oley II; Nellie Dooley (1872-),
who married John R. Snow, and had children: Nellie
Martha and Joseph); (b) Martha Jane Newland (1838-
1914), (married Oharles Robertson Vance. ChildrfMi: James
Isaac Vance (1862-), w'ixo married Mary Currell, and had
children Currell; Currell; Ruth; Oharles; James Isaac
Vance II. James Isaac Vance is a minister of the Presby-
terian OhuTih. Hp is pastor of Grace Church at Nashville,
Tenn(»ssee; Joseph Anderson Vance (1864-), who married
Mary Forman, and' had children : Dorothj', Mary and
Joseph Anderson II. J()se])h Anderson Vance is a prominent
evangelist of the Pn^sbyterian Church; Charles Robertson
\ance II; Margaret Jane Vance; Rebecca Malinda Vance
(1874-), who married Charles L. Hendriek, and had chil-
'^to
Digitized by
Google
NOTABLE SOUTHERN FAMIUES
dren: Margfare* and Mary); (c) Eli^ Barbara Newlanrf
(1840-1912), (marriedi William Powell Duff. Children:
Joseph Newland Duff (1869-), who married Nettie Delila
Young, and had children: Lelia RJiea (1891-), who mar-
ried Glifford E. Maze; William Vastine (1893-), who maT*
ried Blanch Irene Hunt; Ralph Tyler (1900-) ; Carrie Anita;
Powell Rhea Duff (1870-), who married May Richmond
Yo*uny, an'd had children: Edith Viola, Rebecca Elizabeth
and Paul Eugene; James Emmett Duff (1872-1911), who.
m«arried twice: First, Mary Ellen Asten; Second, Virginia
Rush. Children by the first wife: Vera Eugenia (1896-)
and Robert William (1897-); By the second wife: James^
Emmett Duff II, Guy Rush, Cecil Harold and Joseph David-
son; William Port si Duff (1875-), who married Cora Wood^
and had chil'dlren : William Wood, James Fred, Robert Rhea
and Mary Lyde; Robert Cecil Duff (1877-), who married
Martha Thompkins, and had children: Barbara and Ghar-
lolle Mace; Rebecca Elizabeth Duff; Guy Duff (1880-), who-
married Stella Sh-epherd, and had children: Willis Powell
and Lucile; Mace Duff (1883-), who married Dr. William S.
Gray, (uid had children: Joseph William and Robert
Ocil) ; (d) Isaac Anderson Niwland (1842-), (married
twice: First, Martha Lewis; Second, Nannie Vance. Chil-
dren by first wife: Joseph Henry Newland (1867-), who
married Nannie Elizabet^h Hensley, and had children:
Ernest W-olsev (minister of Presbyterian Church), Joseph
Mitchell (1893-), Matlie Anderson (1894-), Clarence Frances.
(1897-), James Lacy (1899-), Charles Logan, William
Isaac, Annie Lee and Kate; Hug^h Mitchell Newland (1870-),.
who married three times: First, Lynn Stewart; Second,
Nastings Perry; Third, Laura Carter Sandidge. Children by
first wife: Emmett (1893-), Joseph Andierson (1895-),
Maxie Jayne (1896-), who married Joseph Dorton Cox,.
Samuel Rhea (1898-), Hugh Lynn, Vernon Rcss. Mabel An-
geline and Robert Rh^a. By second wife one child, William
Perry. By Ihird wife one child, James Dobyns; Mamie
Newland (1874-), wh^ married . W. Houser; Qarey Newland
(1876-), who married J. A. Jayne, and had one child,,
Sarah Francis; Maxwell Newland (1889-)) ; (e) Ellen An-
derson Newland (1^44-), (married James P. DoggeU.
Minister of Presbyterian Church. Children: Lida Beatrioe-
Doggetl (1873-) who -narried Nicholas Peter Ernest. Chil-
dren under Nicholas Peter Earnest; Rebecca Hall Doggelt
(1875-); Fan Lin Doggelt (1877-), who married Walter-
Reeve Earnest, and had children: Waller Reeve Eearnest II,.
276
Digitized by
Google
RHEA
Robert Daggett and Martha Beatrice; Joseph Newlad Dog-
^tt (1879-), who married Cora Leftwioh; Margaret Eleanor
Doggett (1885-), who married Samuel Rhea Earnest, brother
of Nicholas Peter Earnest. (Children under Samuel Rhea
Earnest)); (f) Joseph MHchell Newland (1847-), (married
Judith Lesley. Ohild'^n: ) Rebecca Newland (1876-), who
married Rev. R. H. Taylor, and had children: Joseph
Harold, Mary Newland, Ruth Lesley and Hubert Vance;
Allie Newland; Lesley Newland; Joseph Newlfimd) ; (g)
Fannie Anderson N^nvland (1849-), (married Elkanah
Dulaney Pence. Ob'Mren: Martha Ellen (1886-) and
Joseph James (i8?S-)); (h) Samuel Anderson Newland
(4852-), (married Helen Brown. Children : Margaret Re-
becca Newland (IPS?-), who married Albert Pendleton
Henderson, and ha^ one child, Albert Pendleton Henderson
II; Joseph Newlapd (1888-); Mary Eleanor Newland
(1890-) ; Stella Rb'^a Newland (1892-) ; Vance Newland
(1896-) ; Helen Brown Newland (1899-) ; Nathan Newland
(1902-)); (i) Ro-bert Rhea Newland (I860-), (married
Elizabeth Wolford. Children: Lyndsay Wolford Newland,
M. D. (1887-), who married Agatha Gregg; Lydia Rebecca
Newland; Grace Newland (1892-) ; Lois Salome Newland
(1897-)); (2) Joseph Rhea Anderson (1819-1888), who
married Malinda Williams King. Joseph Rhea Anderson
was a banker and merchant of Bristol, Tennessee, in fact
Ihe founder of Bristol. He had children: (a) James King
Anderson; (b) "^arah Ann Anders<)n; (c) John Oampbell
Anderson (1850-1913), (married twice: First, Annie Ander-
son; Second, Fanniie Williamson. Ghildnen by first wife:
Audley King (1878-), Joseph Rhea, Alice Melindia, Florence
Alexander and John Campbell. By second wife: Margaret
Williamson, John Campbell, Thomas Panrish and Robert
Banks); (d) Mnrgarel Micajah Anderson (1857-), (married
John Henderson Oald'well. CShildren: Margaret Melinda
Caldwell; John Henderson Caldwell II (1882-), who mar-
ried Genevieve Rice, and had children : Margaret Rice and
Genevieve; Joseph Anderson Cteildwell (1884-). who mar-
ried Isabella Hawley, and had children: Joseph Anderson
and John Henderson; George Aiken CaldHvell (1887-), who
married Harriet Parish ; Walter McFarland Caldwell ; Mable
Caldwell (1893-); Almedia Brooks CaldKwll (189'6-)); (e)
Isaac Samuel Andersn (1854-), a minister of the Presby-
lerian Ohmrch, (married GUie Gibson. One child: Nancy
Melinda (1894-), who married John Frank Kincaid, and had
277
Digitized by VjOOQIC
NOTABLE SOUTHERN FAMILIES
oiu» (ihild,, John Frank Kincaid II); (f) Joseph King An-
dnpson; (3) /ohn Anderson; (4) Aud'ley Anderson (1822-
1894), marri'^d twice: First Cornelia Alexander; Second,
Mrs. Jane Preston Vance, nei^ Rhea, his cousin. Children by
fii^sl \\'ife: (/*) Annie Anderson, (married Jo'hn Campbell
Anderscm, son of Joseph Rhea Anderson and Melinda
(King) Anderson. Children under John Campbell Ander-
son); (b) Alice Anderson, (married Rev. A. S. Newman);
(c) John P. Anderson, a minrster of the Presbyterian
Church, (married Roxie McGoslan) ; (d) Audley S. Ander-
son; (e) Alexander Anderson (1856-), (married Elizabeth
Rhea, daug'hler of Theoderic Rland Rhea and Frances
ElizabiMh (Rhea) Rhea. One child: Audley Rhea Aridierson
(1881-), who married Bertha Eleanor Short, and had one
child, Audlej^ Rhea Anderson II); (f) Campbell Andereon;
(5) Dr. Samuel Anderson; (6) Fannie Anderson (1824-
1874), married James Hughes, and had c'hildren: (a)
James HugOies II; (b) Margaret Hughes (-1893), (married
John Mongle. One child, Josepihine) ; (c) Mollie Hughes
(married Thomas Mongle, a brother of John Mongl<\
Children: Margaret and Fannie Rhea) ; (7^ Eliza Anderson
(182()-1890K who married David Carr, and had children:
(a) Aaron H. Carr, (married Mrs. Angle Dodd. Child!ren:
Edilh, Laura and David) ; (b) Margaret R. Carr, (married
twice: First, William Rock'hold Rhea, (son of William R.
Rhea and Mary Ann Mosley (Rockhold) Rhea), no issue.
Second', John Mitchell Fain,^ (son of Jo»hn H. Fain and
Fannie Anderson (Rhea) FainK Children under John
Mitchell Fain) ; (c) James W. Oarr (-1886), married Woodie
Johnson. (Children: James and Alda) ; (d) William Carr;
(e) Jose[)h (]arr; (f) Jennie Carr, (married Baldwin,
and had children: William Lusbrooke and Margaret Rhea) ;
(g) Lucky Carr; (8) Sarah Anderson (1827-1906), married
Henry S. Kane, and had children: (a) Margaret Kane
(1856-^ (married' James M. Barker. Children: Lucile
(1880-), Sara'h (1885-), James M. Barker II (1888-), Henrv
Neville (1892-), and Margaret Kane (1894-)); (b) Hannah
Kane; (c) Henry S. Kane II (1860-^, (married Francis A.
Koiner. Children: Henry S. Kane III (1885-); Patrick Lee
Kane (1887-); Letcher Kane (1888-), who married Pearl
letter; Estelle Kane (1893-) ; Elisha Kent Kane (1895-), who
married FaiIu MacGaven; Jane Kane (1897-); Katherine
Kane (1899-) ; Julian Kane (1815-) ) ;(d)I. Patrick Kane; (e)
Robert Rhea Kane (1868-1901), (married Josephine Ed-
monds. Children: Robert Rhea Kane II (1894-) Esflier
278
Digitized by VjOOQIC
RHEA
Kane (1895-) and- Sarah Kane (1898-)); (9) Gapoline An-
derson; (10) Mary Anderson (1830-1877), who married
Jesse R. Earnest, and had children: (a) Mattde Earnest,
(married Ge-orge F. Robertson. Children: Paul D. Earn^^st,
Lynn, Jesse, Robert, Carl William and George Oliphant) ;
(b) Williajni A. Earnest, (married Florence Donelly. Ohil-
dlren: Jesse, Robert, Carl King, Joseph, William, Qharles
and' Sainuel Rhea) ; (c) Isaac Earnest, (married Minnie Mirl.
One dhild, Charles); (d) Waller R. Earnest; (11) Isaac
Camptx>ll Anderson (1832-), who married Nannie Stewart;
(12) Jant^ Anderson (1833-), wtio married William Stewart,
and had one cMld, Linn Stewart, who married Hugh
Mitchell Newland, (son of Isaac Anderson Newland and
Martha (Lewis) Newland). Children -under Hugh Mitchell
Ne^vland.
4 Samuel Rhea (1795-1863), married twice: First,
(1826) Ann M. Rutledge (daughter of Gen. John Rutledge) ;
Second, (1832) Martha Lynn (1810-^1878). Child by ttrsl
wife: (1) Samuel Audley Rhea (1827-1865), wjio married
twico: First, Martha Ann Harris. No issue; Second, (1859)
Sarah Jane Foster. Samuel Audley Rhea w'us a minister of
the Presbyterian Church, and a missionary to Persia wht^re
he died, and was buried at Mount Seir. (A Tennesseean in
Persia, by Marsh). He had children: (a) Robert LeightoQ
Rhea; (b) Ann! ? Dwight Rhea (1861-), (married Sanmel G.
Wilson, a missionary to Persia. Childre^n: Samuel Rhea,
Mary Agurs, Rose Dulless, Esther, Andrew, Annie Rhea
and Robert Leigh t on ) ; (c) Foster Audley Rhea; (d) Sophia
Perkins Rhea (-1907), (married Rev* William Dullni'ss.
Children : Mabel Rutledige. Dorothy, Editb, Foster Rhea and
W'inslow) ; Samuel Rhea by his second wife had children:
(2) John Lynn Rhea (1832-1910), never marrie^d. He and
his broMier, William Lynn Rhea, engaged in the meri^anlile
business in Knoxville, Tennessee, in which they prospered
and were noted for fheir honesty and integrity. Aftf^r the
death of John, in 1910, William sold out the business and
retired. They with their sister Ellen had a home in Knox-
ville, where they were members of the Presbyterian Ghui ch
and were active in ^llhe religious life of the city. John and
William devoted' a great deal of time and study to collecting
a history of l(he Rhea family, and have the most complete
record of it's members and early history in existence at 11 is
time (1921); (3) Fannie Anderson Rhea (1834-1903), Mho
married John H. Fain, and had childTen: (a) Samoiel Rhea
Fain; (b) Martha Ellen Fain (-1901), (married Robert N.
279
Digitized by VjOOQIC
NOTABLE SOUTHERN FAMILIES
Dosser. Ghild'pen: Fannie Rlhea, Margaret Cowan, Mary
Nell and Robert N. EVosser II; (c) Jo>hn Mitoihell Fain,
(married twice: First, Laura Gertni<te Worley; Second,
Margaret R. Garr, wido\^ of William Rookhold Rhea.
Qhildren by first wife: Worley Jajnes Rhea, Martha Ellen
and John Mit'chell Fain II); (d) Jaan^s Rhea Fain, (mar-
ried Lillian Mae Linkhoart. On^ child, Margery Oowan
Fain); (e) Mary Lynn Fain (-1894), (married Samuel D.
Stuart. One child, Samuel); (4) Mary Martha Rhea (1830-
1894), who married Benjamin Franklin Earnest, and had
children: (a) Samuel Rhea Earnest (1869-), (married Mar-
garel Eleajior Doggett, (sister of Lida Doggett who married
his brother Nicholas Peter Earnest). One child, Eleanor
Elizabelh); (b) Nicholas Peter Earnest (1871-), (married
Lida Doggett. OMldren: Marj^ Eleanor, James Doggett,
Joseph Rhea, Benjamin Foster, Charles Edw^ard and Kath-
erne Louise) ; (c) Eleanor Lyim Earnest, (never married) ;
(5) Joseph Brainerd Rhea (1838-1902), who married Ellen
While Sheffey (daughter of Jud'ge James While Sheflfey
and Ellen Fairman (Preston) Sheffey), and had children:
(a) James White ShefTey Rhea (1869-1918), never married.
(Was a prominent educator) ; (b) Eleanor Lynn Rhea
(1871-), married twice: First, Williaim H. Adams; Second,
Sturn W. Garson, no issue. Child^ren bv first husband:
Caiaries Linwood (1896-) and Brainerd Rhea (1898-) ; (c)
Margaret Preston Rhea (1886-) (married Henr\' Boyd Stan-
ley, Children: Ellen Sheffey, Pauline Huir and Henry
Boyd Stanley II); (d) Virginia Sheffey Rhea, (died in
infancy); (6) James Alexander Rhea (1840-1871), no
issue; (8) Robert Morrison Rhea (1842-1903). who married
Bella W. Cowan, (daughter of James Oowan and Lucinda
(Dickinson) Cowan), and had children: (a) Mamie Rhea,
(died young) ; (b) Gharies McClung Rhea (-1903) ; (c)
Lucy Foster Rhea; (d) Martha Lynn Rhea, (married
Favette VanDeveiuter. Children: Christopher, RoImm-I Rhea,
Latitia and Isabella); (8) Margaret Elizabeth Rhea (1848-^,
wiio married Rev. Perez D. Cowan, (brother of Bella Cowan
who married her brother, Robert Morrison Rhea), and had
children: (a) Margaret McClung Cowan, (died j'oung'i ; (b)
Eleanor Rhea Cowan, (married Allen Davies) ; (c) James
Dickerson Oowan, (married Elsie Bailey. One child, James
Dickinson Cowan II); (9) Eliza Eleanor Rhea (1844-1914),
never married; (10) William Lynn Rhea (1846-), never
married; (11) Charles Stodd-ard Rhea, died in infancy.
5 Eleanor Rhea (1797-1865), married (1818) Edward
280
Digitized by Google
RHEA
B. Andepson and had children: (1) William R. Anderson
(1821), who married Louise Sttiilih, and had children: (a)
BetKe Anderson; (b) William S. Anderson, (married Ella
Spurgeon. Ghild«*en: George, Joseph, Rihea and Paul) ; (c)
Edward B. Anderson, (married Fannie Waskey. Children:
Claroncp, Lynn and Glenn); (d) Ellen Anderson; (e) Mar-
garet Anderson; (f) Robert Anderson; (g) Ollie Anderson;
(h) Jt)seph And-erson; (i) Mary Anderson; (2) Joseph Ander-
son (1824-); (3) Audley Anderson (1826-), who married
Margaret Rhea, (daughter of Major Rhea and Jane (Scott)
Rhoa), and had children: Joseph and Robert; (4) Fannie
AndiTson; (5) Margaret E. Anderson (1832-); (6) Robert
R, Anderson (1834-), \Aiio married Winnie Boy, and chil-
dten: (a^ Amanda B. Anderson, (married Joseph Neal.
Children: Kate and Rhea) ; (b) Alexander Anderson, (mar-
ried Mary Smith. Ohildren: Hal and Ethel) ; (c) Ellen An-
derson; (di Samuel R. Anderson, (married Me'lissa Blevins.
Cfcildren: Samuel, Sallie and Robert); (e) James Ander-
son: (f) Fannie May Anderson; (g) Frank B. Anderson;
(7) Sanniel R. Anderson, (a twin of Robert R. Anderson
born 1834) ; (8) Sarah Andierson.
6 Fannie Rhea (1799-1850), mamed (1825) Jonathan
Daehman, and had children: (1) Joseph R. Bacihman; (2)
Ann Peoples Ifeiehnnan (1827-1901), who married three
trnies: First Joshua Phipps; Second, Rev G. Waterbury;
Third. Lyons. By her first husband she had one
€hiM: Joshiia McKinney Phipps (1853-), who married
Mary McKinney, and had c'hildren: (a) Annie Phipps
(1884-^ ('married Snannel Lee King. Ohildren: Samul Lee
King 11. J. Phipps, John G. and Charles Logan); (b)
Charles McKinney Phipps (1877-), (married Arinie Sevier
Morrison, (ihildren: Mary McKinney, and Margeret Se-
vier); (c) Kenneth Logan Phipps; (d') James Gaines
Phipps (188I-), (mairied Mabel Sevier Morrison. Children:
Keiuu'th Logan and Jnmes Gaines Phipps II) ; (e) Mary
Wiipj)s: (f) Joshua McKinney Phipps II; (g) Fannie Phipps
(1880-), (married Arthur S.'Cosler. One child: Arthur S.
4Visleri; (3) Frances Baohman; (4) Elizabeth Bachman:
(5) Nathan Bachman (1832-1914), an eminent evangelist of
ihe PiTshylerian Ghinx^h, who married Sarah Jane Cun-
ningham, and had one child': Sarah Jane Bachman, who
married John Charles Moore, and had children: John
Charles Moore II, Nathan, I^wrence and Robert; (6)
Sanuiel Rhea Bachman; (7) Mary Jane Bachman; (8)
Jonathan Waverly Bachman I). D., (1837-). Has been a
281
Digitized by VjOOQIC
NOTABLE SOUTHERN FAMILIES
luiuister of the First Pr(»sl)yti'iNui 'Qhui*ch at Chattanuog-a,
Teimi^ssee. since 1873, and is lovingly ri»ferred to as ''The
Bishop of Ohattanooga". He married Evalina Dulaney, and
had children: (a) Frances Taylor Badiman, (married
William L. Magill) ; (b^ Mary Bachman (-1897), (married
Oharles 0. Andeii>on. Children: John Waverly Andei'son
(1890-), wtvo married Dorothy Morgan, and had' one child:
Dorothy Dulaney Anderson; \\'i]]uun Dnhiney Anderson
(1892-); Mary Margaixjt Andt^^rson (18U5-), who married
Charles Shelby Cofley and has two children ) ; (c) Annie
Rhea Bachman, (married Rev. Charles R. Hydt*. One child:
John Bachman Hyd(» (1890-). wlio married W'illia Foster
and has one child. Rose); (d) AMlliam Badhman; (e)
Margaret Walker Bachman (-1899), (married Jajiies L.
ilsddwell) ; (f) NalJian Lynn Bac'hnmn, (married Pearl
Duke. One diilfl, MarWia 13ulan(»y BacTinian. Nafl^mn ijf^tuk
Bachman is an attorncy-at-law and is a nwrniber of the
Supreme Cmirt of Te^nnesset*) ; (g) Evalina Dulaney Bach-
man, (married Charles Edward Buek) ; (h and i) Alfred
Jackson and RobiTt Rlhi»a Bachman, (twins) ; (j) Carrie
VanDyke Bachman; (9) John Lynn Badmum (1842-1918).
A minister of the Presbyterian (Hiurch; founder and Pres-
ident of Svveelwaiter College, at Sweetwater, Tennessee. He
maiTied Fannie Rogan, and fhad (Children: (a) James Rogaa
Bachman (1874-), (married Elizabeth Eubanks) ; (b)
Annie Lynn Bachman (1876-), (married Dr. William A.
McGlain. Children: Williani A. McClahi II, Fannie, Lynn
and Annie); (c^ Byres Bachman; (d) Bessie Bachman
(1881-), (maITit^d James R. Patton. One child, James H.^;
(e) John W. Bachman; (f) Lillie IMl Bachjnan (1886-),
(married James M. Harris. Children: James M. Harris H,
and Fannie) ; (g) Fannie Rhea Bachman; (10) Robert
Lucky Bachman (1844-), (married May Ro^e. Children:
Robert, Elsie, who married Fred Clymer and has one child,
Rose, and Kirk).
7 Nancy Rhea (1801-1839), nmrried John Lynn,
(brother of Martha Lynn who married Samuel Rhea). She
had children: (1) Frances Ljiin; (2) Martha Lynn (1827-
1887), who married John Lampson, and had children: (a)
William Royal Lampson (I860-) ; (married Amanda Hop-
kins Parker); (b) John Lynn Lampson; (c) Nannie Rliea
Lampson; (d) Eleanor W. Lampson (1864-), (married
Elbridge James Baxter. CSiildren: Martha (1894-) and
Eleanor Lynn (1897-)); (3) Ellen Lynn; (4) John Lvnn:
(5) Joseph Lynn; (6) Mary Ann Ljun (18.35-1871).
282
Digitized by
Google
RHEA
(married Dr. Joseph Walker. Chilcln'n: (a^ Fannie Rugan
Walker, (married Earnest Powell. Children : Hugh, Ella,
and Sallie) ; (b) Hugo Kelso Walker, (A minister 'of fche
Presbyterian Ohureh. Married Lizzie Moore. Ohildren:
William Moore, Hugh \Mles, Allie Rhea who married F. E.
Prior, Elizabeth, Mary Linn, Ruth, Joseph, Margaret Eleanor
and Jennie)'; (c) James Rhea Lynn Walker (A minister of
the Presbyterian Ohurch. Married twice: First, Venable
Holt; Second, Mrs. . Ih' first wife he had one
child: Catherine); (d) Thomas Frances Walker; (e)
Joseph Rogers Walker; (f) Jonnie Walker; (7) James Lynn
(1837-), who married Sallie Rogan, and had children: (a)
Samuel Edward Lynn; (b) Carrie Lynn; (c) Rev Jo!m
Lynn; (d) Fleming LjTin; (e) Mary Lynn; (f) Nannie
Lynn; (g) Perry Lynn; (8) Samuel Alexander Lynn
(1839-), who mamedi Ophelia Rogan, and had children:
William, James, Annie Bell, John Rogan and Adah.
8 Robert P. Rhea (1803-1881), mamed Sarah J. Pres-
ton and had childl'en: (1) Jane Pivston Rhea; (2) Frances
Elizabelh Rhea (1832-1870), who married Theoderic Bland
Rhea (son of VIII James Rhea and Elizabeth (Snapp) Rhea.
Ghildiren undj-r Theodoric Bland Rhea) ; (3) Joseph Rhea
III (1830-1909;. who married Eliza Ann Earhart, and had
children: (a) Robert Ear<hart Rhea (1869-) (married Mar-
garet Rebecca Rhea, daughter of Robert Bruc<* Rhea and
Sarah (S(»lls) Rhea, and had chiildren: Eleanor and twins
Ma'Tgaret, and Heh^n Bruce) ; (b) Alexander Preston Rhea
(1871-); (c) Joseph Anderson Rhea (1873-^; (d^ Lady
Sara'h Rhea (1874-): (e) Margaret Davis Rhea (1876- •',
(married Ohester Bullard. Childlren: Willie Margaret and
Joe Rhea); (f) John Rhea (1878-) ; (4) Ma-rgaret Preston
Rhe^ (1835-1913), who married John Taylor Eai^hart, and
had childirc^n: (a) George Jackson Earhart; (b) (Charles
Balfour Eerhort (1864-), (mamed Elta Emma Powell.
(Thildren: John Powell Ear*hart, who married Viola San-
d<»rs, and had one child, Oharles Sanders; Samuel Pierce
Earhart (1887-), who married Eveleen B. Mauk, and had
children: Margaret Gathleen and Etta Elizabevth; Robert
Rhea Eafhad; Ohairles Balfour Earhart II; Margaret
Earhart (1893-) ; Violet Etta Earhart (1898-); Nellie Roller
Eartiart; Ralph Preston Earhart.) ; (c) Robert Rhea Earhart;
(d) Sarah Ella Earhart (1866-), (married William Edgar
Carter. Children: Joseph, Hubert and Oarrie) ; (e) Joseph
Preston Earhart (1869-), (married Sarah Ann Boy. Ghil-
283
Digitized by VjOOQIC
NOTABLE SOUTHERN PAMIUES
dren : John Sidney, Mary Lillian and Phillip Boy) • (f )
M-argapet Jane Eawiart (1872-), (married Thomas J Fam.
Children : William, Ruih, Thomas J. Fain II, Florence and
Margaret Preslon) ; (g) John Henry Earhart (1874-), (mar-
ried Frances Susan Fleenor. Children: Claren Wade,
Hazel RMa, Charles Henrj-, William Hurman and twin
Martha Evalin, and John Howard) ; (5) Robert James Rhea,
9 Sarah Rhea (18(X)-1862), married (1831) Judge Sekh
J. W. Lucky, and hadi children: (1) Frances A. Lucky; (2^
Saraih Jane Lucky (1834-1884), who married William
Kirkpatrick Moore, and had children : (a) .\llie Rihea Moore
(1859); (b) Lizzie Moyers Moore (1861-), (married Hugh
Kelso Walker. Children: William M-oore (1885-), Hugh
Kelso (1887-), married Fanjnie Carpenrter, Allie Rhea (1891-)
married Ford Prior, Elizabeth Sterling (1893-), Mary Lynn
(1895-), Jane Smith (1897-), Ruth Rankin (1 899-), Joseph R.
and Margaret Eleanor); (c) John Lucky Moore (1866-
1897); (d) Rhea MofTett Moore (1870-1895); (e) Nell Wil-
liams Moore (1873-); (f) WiWiaan Kirkpatrick Moore II
(1876-) ; (3) Ellen Lucky (1836-), who married Jesse Ham-
ilton Gaait, and had dhildren: (a) Samh Lucky Gaut (1868-
1902), (married James G. DeArmond. Children: Cornelius
H^imillon and' Margaret Eleanor) ; (b) John Watson Lucky;
(c) Jesse Rhea Lucky; (d) Agnes Moore Lucky (1875-)
(marri Hi Hugh Montgomery Kn»ox. Childiren: Agnes Moore
and Thonms JefTers(m) ; (e) LueHa FJrwia Moore (1875-),
(married Thomas Oscar Marshall. Children: Orlando Gaut
and Agnes Lucky); (f) Cornelius Lucky (1877-), (marriid
Willa Cl(»velaiicl. Oih* child, (>)rnplius Lucky II); (4)
Sophia Lucky; (5) Joseph Lucky; (6) Cornelius Eugenia
Lucky (1841-., who married Julia Sims. One c»hild: Mary
utio married H. J. Kelso, M. I).; (7) Martha McAlisler
Lucky (1S43-), Who married John E. Williams. Children:
(a) Ednumd Lucky Williams; (b) Annie E. Williams,
(m^irried 1). O. Mi(an»dler'> ; (c) Oorneliais L. Williams,
married (Jcorgin HurgeUe) ; (d) Bessie Williams, (married
William Dempster. One child, Elizabeth Ann) ; (e) Agnes
Willinms; (8) Agnt^ Mitchell Lucky (1845-1903), who jnar-
ried Dr. Joseph R. Walker, and had children : Cornelius L.,
Sf»th L., Margaret Kelso, Jesse G., Mary Gaines married
George Websler, and Bell Moore; (9) EliaabeHh Dysart
Lucky (1847-), who married George W. Hamilton, and had
irtilldren: Jenni<^ Mf>ore, Bessie, Seth, George W., Cornelius,
Plenrv^ and Jane Rhea.
284
Digitized by
Google
RHEA
VI ELIZABEl^H RHEA
VI Elizabeth Rhea (1767-1821), daughter of Rev.
Joseph Rhea and Elizabeth (Mcllwaine) Rhea, married
Major Robert Rhea (1784-1841). Major Robert Rhea and
Elizabeth Rhea were born in Ireland, the former, presuma-
bly near St. Johnstone, the latter at Fahan, near London-
derry. He came to America, with his parents, in 1785, she,
with her parents, in 1769. They were married and lived
until their deaths in Sullivan County, Tennessee. She had
children:
1 Sarah Rhea,
2 Joseph R. Rhea,
3 John Rhea,
4 Elizabeth M. Rhea.
1 Sarah Rhea (-1849), married (1826) George Wood-
son Gaines, (Notable Sooithem Families, Vol. I), and had
children: (1) John Rhea Gaines (1827-1911), Who married
three times: First, Sarah Rice; Second, Elizabeth Blair;
Third, Harriet Amanda Craig. Until the lasit three years of
his life John Rhea Gaines^ lived on his farm in Monroe
(bounty. Tennessee. He was distinguished for slerling honor
and loj-alty. By his first wife he had children : (a) Franoes
Henry Gaines (1852-), a minister of the Presbyterian
Ohuroh and' President of Agnes Scott Institute, v^-^hich he
established. (He married Mary Louise Lewis. One child:
Lewis McFarland Gaines, M. I). (1878-), who married Ethel
Alexander, and had children: Mary Eloise, Alexander
Pendleton and Virginia Ethel) ; (b) William Strother
Gaines, M. D. (1854-), (married Laura Brown. Children:
Sue Brown Gaines (1878-), who married Edward F. Betz,
and had children: Dorothy and Willi^am Edward; Sallie
Rioe Gaines (1880-), who married' Reese B. Brown; Mable
Josepfhine Gaines; Haittie Pendleton Gaines (1884-), who
married Thomas W. Secrest, and had one ehild», William
Gaines; Minnie Laaira Gaines (1887-), who married Howard
Shubert; William Rhea Gaines (1891-); Frank P. Gaines
(1892-)). John Rhea Gaines had children by his second
wife: (c) Mary Gaines (1861-1902), (married William L.
Magill. Ohildiren: Bessie Wilson (1885-), Sadie Gaines
(1886-), Edward Alexander (1890-), and William L. Magill
II (1899-)). John Rhea Gaines had children by his third
wife: (d) Annie Rhea Gaines (1880-), (married Charles
Leonidas Clark. Children: James William, John Craig,
Charles Palmer and Mary Clark) ; (e) Susie Rice Gaines
285
• Digitized by VjOOQIC
NOTABLE SOUTHERN FAMILIES
(1883-), (married Frank Knox Hutcheson. Children: John
Gainf^s, Frank Hutcheson II, Susan Craig and Charles
Strother) ; (f) Frances Louisa Games (1888-), (married
Jack Oolton Gates. Children : Jack Cotton II and Catherine
Craig); (2) Robert J. Gaines (1829-1890), who married
Sarah Cook, and had children: George W. Gaines, M. D.
Jofhn A. GaJines, M. D., and AUie Gaines; (3) William
Gaines (1834-1854); (4) August Pendleton Gaines (1831-
1902) , who married Dorcas Henderson. They lived on their
farm near Sweetw^aler, Tennessee, and were nofted for their
hospitality. He had children : (a) MoUie Gaines; (b) Sadie
Gaines; (c) Carrie Gaines (1862-), (married Hugh Mack
Willson. Children: James Gaines (1893-), Dorcas Hender-
son (1895-), Mintie N. (1897-) and Sadie Gaines (1899-:);
(5) Elizabeth McCuin Gaines (1837-1873), who married^
Frank Bogarft, M. D. (1827-1887), and had chidren:
(a) Waller Gaines Dogart^ M. D. (1858-), (married Lorella
J. Magill. \\'alter Gaines Bogart was a professor in "hal-
tanooga Medical College and owns Highland Sanifarrim,
which he established, at Chattanooga, Tennessee. He had
children: Elizabeth Gaim»s Bogart (1886-), who married
Tolcolt Crosby Olney; Frank Magill Bogart (1888-), who
married Pauline Staufter) ; (b) Thomas C. Bogart: (c) John
Newton Bogart; (d) Anna Bogart; (e) Frank Bogart II;
(f) William Moore Bogart. M. \K (1867-), (married Keturah
Monit'gomery Thompson. He so'rved on the Chattanooga
Local Draft BoardI during the World War. He had children :
Franklin Blevins Bogart, M. D. (1894-), who married Alice
Harloff; Martha Josephine Bogart (1898) ; Anna Mary Bo-
gart (1901-)); (6) Sarah Gaines (1849-1901), who married
John W. Johnston (1871-1915^, (married Pearl Snapp.
Children: Ellen Elizabeth and Caifford Snapp); (c) Ella
Johnston; (d) Annie Johnston (1874), married Frank C.
McKenzi<\ Children : John I^e, Harry Gaines, Frank
Blair, William" Yancy, Sarah Louise, MaVy-Ella, Margar(»t
Elvira and Donald Penland) : (e) John Johnson (1876-),
married Julia Forkner. Children: James Rhea, Bessie
Lee, Mary Melvina and Lula Frances) ; (f) Robert Johnston;
(g) Walter Johnston; (h) Mary Johns^ton.
2 Joseph R. Rhea, married (1830) Bmaline M. Alexan-
der. They lived in Loudon County, Tennessee, until 1855,
When they moved to Collin County, Texas, where they
prospered in business. They built mills which gave the
name, Rhea's Mills, to the town in which they lived. He
had children: (1) Robp-' P. Rhea (1831-1915^ ; (2) William
286
Digitized by VjOOQIC
RHEA
Alexan<ier Rhea (1833-1906), Who married twice: First,
Ella Foote; Secoiwi, Mrs. Florence Parkins, no issue. Chil-
dren by first wife: (a) Jean Foot (1872-), (married Clifton
E)merson. Children: Ella Emerson (1895-), who married
Robert Fitzhugh Newsome, and had one child, Robert
Fitzhugh Newsome II; James Frederick Emerson; Clifton
Alexander Emerson) ; (b) William Alexander Rhea II, M.
D. (1874-), (married' Mtiry Hewidon. Children: Lawrence
Herndon (1897-), and Alexander Poote (1899-)); (c) Law-
rence Joseph Rhea, M. D. (1878-) ; (d) Mary Elliott Rhea
(1880-), (married' Lewis Lindemuth) ; (e) John Edwin Rhea
(1883-), (married Ida Dowell. Children: John Edwin Rhea
II and Mar>' Ida); (3) John W. Rhea (1835-1862) married
Veronica Slaughter Mayes and had children: (a) Joseph
E. Rhea (1858-1917), (married Florence Bass); (b) John
W.Rhea II (1861-), (married Winfield Ledbetier. Children:
Olivia, John W. Rhea III. Veronica and Winfield) ; (4)
James C. Rhea (1837-), wno married Mary A. Gossett, and
had children: (a) Lula May Rhea; (b) William Joseph
Rhea (1877-), (married Elizabeth Groves. One child, Wil-
liam Joseph Rhea II) ; (c) Hattie Emona Rhea; (d) John
Alexander Rhea; {o) Robert Lee Rhea, M. D. (1882-), (mar-
ried Margaret Buckholz.' One child, Robert Lee Rhea II);
(f) Jaimes Long Rhea; (5) Mary Elizabeth Rhea (1840-
1913), who married William Miller, and had children: (a)
Rhea Miller (1874-), (married May McKanjey. Children:
Truman, Willam Frederick and Sarah Elizabeth] ; (b)
Mary Emma Miller; (c) Joseph W. Miller; (d) Stella Ella
Miller; (e) Lnla Alexander Miller (1882-), (mflo^ried J. Fred
Smith. Children : Rhea Marsh and J. Fred Smith II.
3 John Rhea (1810-1863), married- (1839) Elizabeth
Dodson. John Rhea was born in Sullivan Comity, Tennes-
see, moved ^to Roane, later Loudbn, County, Tennesse. He
had children: (1) Alexander Dodson Rhea (1841-1017), who
married Mary Frances Hatchett, and had "children: (a)
John Rhea; (b) Sam Rhea; (c) Robert Rhea (1865-), (mar-
ried Maude Love. One child. John Love Rhea (1881-) (d)
Adaline Rhea (1866-1909), ((married Lee E. Burgess. Ohil-
dren: Addie Lee Burgess (1891-), who married Joseph A.
Rudnick; Rhea Burgess (1897-)) ; (e) Joseph Rhea (1871-),
(married Anna B. Peeples. One chilcf, Frances Ann
(1906); (f) Elizabeth Rhea; (g) Louise Rhea (1877-
1911), (married Lilian Lester Davis) ; (h) Frances Rodgers
Rhea (1879-), (married Mrs. Annie Wright Maxey) ; (i)
Ol'mves Rhea (1882-), (married Mae B. Lovvxion. Children:
287
Digitized by VjOOQIC
NOTABLE SOUTHERN FAMILIES
Mary Alice and Helen Louise) ; (j) Alexander Dodson Rhe*
II (1885-), (married Annie L. Boesc/h. Children: Elizabetfi
and Alexao'd'er Doddon Rhea III;) (2) Sarah Elizabeth Rhea
(1843-1893), who married Samuel Andrew Rodgers (see
Donaldson Family), -and had children: (a) Alict^ Rodgers;
(b) Galifornia Elimbeth Rodgers (1869-), (married' Joseph
Marion Greer. One child; Rhea Rodgers Greer (1890-). who
married Guy Lyeon Hammitt; (c) Adaline MahaJa Rodgere,
(married John JohmstMi Blair) ; (dl) Sanituel Rhea Rodg-
ers; (e) Mary Belle Rodgers, Married Jasper Porter Slephen-
son) ; (f ) Annie Eliza Rodigers, (married Ulrich Ita HI.
One child, Uldch Ita IV) ; (g) Arthur Rodgers (1879-),
(married Dean Stuart Penland. Children: Arthur Rodgers
II, James Penland, Saanuel Awdrew Rodgers II and Jasper
Rhea Rodgers); (h) John Rlhea Rodgers (1885-), (married
George Steele Dewey. Ohildren. Elizabeth Rhea, George
Steele Dewey II, Mary Alice, Samuel R-odgers and Charlt^>
4 Elizabeth M. Rtiea (1807-1853), married (1831) Jo-
seph Anderson, and had children: (1) Roix^rt Anderson
(1832-1895), who married Emily Huff, and had children:
(a) Elizabeth Anderson; (b) Adah Anderson; {c) Rhea
Huff Anderson; (d) Emily Jane Anderson; (1871-). (mar-
ried Oscar Everett Mahonev. Ohildren: Rob^u^t Rhea
(1894-), Martha Emily (1896- )\ and Oscar Everett M«honev
II (1899-); (2) Sarah G. Anderson: (3) Isabella J. Ander-
son; (4) Elizabeth M. Anderson (1840-1881), who mairieil
James Huff, and had c?hildr<Mi : (a) Elizabeth K. Huff
(1868-), (married Dr. Jump); (b) William E. Huff (1872-).
(married Lucy Gallaher. Children: James Gallaher (1898-)
and Hugh McCroskey (1901-)); (c) James Anderson Huff
(1875-), (married Mabel Wilson. Children: James Ander-
son Huff II, F. Elizabeth, Woods Wilson, Mabel Claire.
Margaret Ann and Isabel Rhea) ; (d') Mamie Huff (1877-),
married Jfwnes C. Miller; (6) Samuel Anderson (1845-
Huff); (5) John A. Anderson, (1842-1868), Who married
Isabella Hotchkiss, and 'had one child: Lou Addie, who
married James C Mller; (6) Samuel Anderson (184Sr
1900), who married Margaret Huff, and had childi^n: (a)
Emma Anderson (1868-), (married Samuel 0. Henly.
Ohildren: Margaret, Janie, Lena Reese, Marshall Franldin,
Prances Adaline and Maude Teressa) ; (b) Joseph Marshall
Anderson; (8) Rachel A. Anderson (1848-1911), who mar-
ried J. Ebb Growder, and had ohiklren: (a) John A^
Growder (1869-), (married Bettie Eldridge. One child:
288
Digitized by VjOOQIC
RHEA
John Eldridge); Growder) ; ElizabeCh Jame Crcm-der
(1871-), (married William H. Boggs. Children: Annis
Irene (1891-) and Lloyd Watson (1897-)); (c) Addle
Amelia Oowder; (d) Mag«gie Sue Orawder (1877-1901),
((mairried' A. B. Smith. Children : Robeirt Rea^ian (1898-)
and Raymond Oowder (1901-)) ; (e) Samuel Rhea Growder
(1879-), (married DoroShy Shaw. Ghild^^n: Dopoithy Helen,
Winfield Rhea, Joe Anderson and Rachel Elizabeth); (f)
Willie Anettte Growder (1882-), (married Charles Kirby.
Children: Hugh Herbert, Paul Jennings, Clarence Birch-
field and Oliver Jay) ; (g) Racliel Adah Growder; (h) Nellie
Hugh Growder; (9) Amanda Anderson (1851-1907), wh)o
married John Taylor Lowery, and' had children : (a) Mary
Emma Lowery (1872-), (married Edgasr Evans); (b) Hugh
Fain Lowery (1874-), married^ Laura Bell Click); (c)
Elizabeth Lowery (1876-) ; (d) Ella Lowery; (e) Maggie
Lowery (1883-) ; (f) Rhea Evans Lowery (1889-); (g)
Robert Lowery (1895-).
VII SAMUEL RHEA
VII Sanauel Rhea (1769-1843), son of Rev. Joseph Rhea
and Elizabeth (Mcllwaine) Rhea, was bom and died in
America. He married Nancy Bredfen (-1856), sister of
Elizabeth and Frances Breden who married' his brothers,
William and Joseph Rhea. He had children :
1 John Nancy Rhea,
2 Fannie B. Rhea,
8 Margaret Rhea,
4 Joseph S. Rhea,
5 Jane Rhea,
6 Ellen Rhea,
7 Elizabeth Rhea.
1 John Nancy Rhea (-1876), married Ruth M. Rock-
hold (-1872), (a sister of Mary. Rocfchold who married
William Rhea), and had children: (1) Elizabeth Crawford
Rhea, who married Samuel Patton Spurgeon, and had
children: (a) Alice Ann Spurgeon, (married William Henry
Fain. Children : Rachel, Thomas, Margaret E., Lilla Linn,
Catrrie Rullh who married S. T. Moser, and Samuel Patton
Spurgeon) ; (b) Olivia James Spurgeon; (2) Saimuel Wood
Rhea (1841-), who married Sarah Irvin Odtoghter of
Montgomery Irvin and Frances (Rhea) Irvin), and had
children: (a) John Irvin Rhea (1869-), (married Retta
Slagle. CJhildren: Alpha Josephine, John Irvin Rhea II,
289
Digitized by VjOOQIC
NOTABLE SOUTHERN FAMIUES
Sarah Harriet, and Tam Rye) ; (b) Fannie Ruth Rhea
(1870-), (married John J. Hicks. On« ohiM, Vehna E.) ;
(c) Myrabel Rhea (1872-), (anarried Daniel A. Witcher.
Ohildren : Mary Irvin, James Rhea ami John
Daniel); (d) Jennie Dysart Rhea (1874-), (nmrried James
I. A. Hughes. Children: Jaanes Rhea, Samuel Dysarl and
Allen Camp-bell) ; (e) Map>' Margaret Rhea (1877-), (ni«i^
ried Charles L. Goaper. Children : Perry Carson, Sallie
Lavine, Oarl Lee and Aridline) ; (f) Sarah Alice Rhea(1880-) ;
(g) Elizabeth Bredon Rhea (1883-), (married Henrj' A.
Glover); (h) Flavia Convi^rsp Rhea (1885- n ('married J.
Monroe Broyles. Children: Sallie Kate, Nannie Bess, Lillian
Ruth and Irvin Le-uis) ; (i) Samuel Wood Rhea II (1889-),
(married twice: First, Minola Lindenwood; Second, Mar-
caret HaiT. Children by second wife: Glena Leota and
Kenneth D.) (3) John M. Rhea, a minisiter of the Pres-by-
terian Church, married Elizabefh Smith, and had ohildren:
Carrie, May, Cora Leo, John W'., William Phmvmer, Joseph
C, Maggie, Pearl and John L.;(4)Harrie»t Rh<^, \Vht) married
Rev. L. M. Gartwright, and had children: Rhea, Laura,
Joseph W., Fannie, Robert, Lizzie and Bettie; (5) Mary Rhea
who married W. R. Smith, and had chiMtHm: Mar>' (-1891)
and Lydia; (6) Joseph Rhea (-1906), who (married Addie
Smith, and had ohildren: Elizabeth, John, Ezra and Mary;
(7) Maggie Rhea (-1906), who married W. R. Hull, and had
childl^en: JK>hn H. and Minnie L.
3 Margaret Rhea, married Wen'dlell Shurm, and had
children: (1) Nancy Strum, who married Fulton Hall; (2)
Fannie Strum, who married CartwTi^ht; (3) Kate
Stnum, who married Sainiuel Hall.
4 Joseph S. Rhea, D. D. S., married Saraphina S. Wil-
liams, and had children: (1) Nannie A. Rhea; {'2) Archie
W. Rhea, M. D., who mairried Mar>' Smith, and had chil-
dren: (aj Lucia Rhea, (married Charles Mims. Children:
Myrtle, Mad'ge, Carl, Myra, Mary, Edward and Drew) ; (b)
Archie W, Rhea II, (married Mary Smith) ; (3) Rhoda J.
Rhea, who married Capt. John Pitn^e, and had children:
Nbla, John, Efhel, Rhea. Henry and Rhoda; (4) Saimuel W.
Rhea, D. D. S., (1850-), who' married Ella D. Garter and
bad ohiMmi : Joseph Carter, James Wendell and Janie.
5 Jane Rhea, married John F. Preston (son of Rev. Rhea
Preston), and haidl children: (1) Nannie Preston (-1906),
who mamed John C. Summers, and had childivn: John
Fairman P. who Tiiarried Mary KldcT, land had chil'diren:
Von Moltke and Mary Ek'/^r; Lr\vis Alivia; Robert J.; Jennie
•
290
Digitized byCjOOQlC
RHEA
Pinfcney who imarri'ed' George T. Miltohell; Nannie A.
Fannie Rhea; Sunshine Andrew; Von MoHke and John
Carlisle; (2) Robert J.Preslon, M. D., (-1906) who married
Martha Sheffey, and had children: Eleanor Pairinan, and
Riobert J. Preston II; (3) Sarah Ellen Preston, who married
David Flournoy Bailey, and^had children: Jane Rhea, Jnlia
Flournoy, Nannie Louise, Martha Preston, Robert P. and
Daniel Ella; (4) James Brainerd Preston, who married
Halfttie B. Tinsley, and 'had one chlid, Seaton Tinsley; (5)
Satouel R. Preston, who married Ida Suiphen, and had
children: Jtahn F)airman, Samoiel Rliee, Mary Florence,
James Brainerd, Robert James and Ida Sxitphen; (6) Jennii*
FaiTman Preston who married Thomas James Newman.
6 Ellen Rhea, married Washington Montgomery, and
haid) one child, Nannie who married Jones.
7 Elizabeth Rhea (-1876), married Thomas Crawford,
and had children : John R. Orawford, M. D., who married
Maipy Bachman; Seraphine Crawford, who married Rev.
Williajm Crawford; Joseph R. iOawftxrd, who married Cor-
nelia Rogan; Samuel H. Orawford, who married Fannie
Bachtoan ; Nannie Crawford, who married James I>arr
VIII JAMES RHEA
VIII James Rhea (1774-1885), son of Rev. Joseph Rhea
and Elizabeth (Mcllwaine) Rhea, married' (1815) Elizabeth
Snapp, (1833-1857), who marriw Rev. Alexander Blair, (2)
1 Margaret Rihea,
2 John Quintas Rhea,
3 James Rhea II,
4 Elizabeth Rhea,
5 Frances Rhea,
6 Samuel Rhea,
8 TheodJeric Bland Rhea.
1 Margaret Rhea (1815-1898), married (1832) John
Pemberton Snapp, and had children: (1) Elizabeth Rhea
Snapp, (183311857), who married Rev. Alexander Blair, (2)
Florence Diana Smapp (1835-1908), v/ho married Paul Wil-
liams, and had child'ren: Fredwick Williams; Rebecca V.
Williams who married McNigthJt; Elsie Williams;
Florence Williams whb married Peak; Elizabeth
Wilhams; (3) Vivolune M. Snapp (1839-), who married
twice: First, Rev. Alexander Adams Blair; Second,
Brazelton. She had a daugther who married B. A. Williams;
(4) Cynthia Lodoville Snapp (1844-1917), who married
291
Digitized by VjOOQIC
NOTABLE SOUTHERN FAMILIES
WeiwieH Daniels Snapp, and 'ha)cJ children: (a) Abram
Lawpen'ce Snapp (1870-), (inarried Flora G. Martin. Chil-
dren: Tennie, John Wendell, Hawkins Sevier, Elmer E.,
and Elizabelih Rachel) ;(b)John Pemiberton Snapp 11(1872-),
(married Julia Adiah Shields. Children: Lecta Pemberton
and Ivan Shields); (c) Hawkins Wendell Snapp (1874-),
(married Laiura Bayle) ; (d^Rhea Mcllwaine Snapp (1880-;,
(married I>ora Rowe. Children: Onell Rhea, Letter Wise-
man, Alta Juneifrta and Janeva Florena) ; (5) John Ray-
mond Snapp; (6) Tulen Velosso Snapp (1846-), (married
Isaac Earnest) ; (7) Cicero DeFores'l! Snapp.
2 John: Quintas Rhea (1818-1883), married twice
First, (1843) Cynthia Williams; Second, Cornelia Cath-
erine Williams, sister of first wife. Children by first wife :
(1) Margaret Francis Rhea; (2) William Fort Rhea; (3)
James Rhea; (4) John Rhea. Wiho married , and had
children: Joseph and Ivy; (5) Elizabeth Rhea. By second
wife he badl one child: (6) Annie Copeland Rhea, wtio
married Tbomas Humes Williams II, and had children:
Gopeland Rhea and Thomas Humes Williaans III.
3 James Rhea II (1820-1891), married (1847) Louisa
Smith, and had children: (1) Wright Smith Rlhea (1848-
1917), w^ho married Jennie Rice, and had children: Walter
Preston, GroverC, Wright Smith Rhea II and Alexander;
(2) James Rhea III (1850-1917), who married Eug.me
Cochran, and had chiMren: Willa (1890-) and Elizabeth
(1899-); (3) Alexander Smith Rhea (1852-), who marriid
Sallie Virginia Harris; (4) Bryant Whitfield Rhea (1854.),
who married Sadie Roseberry, and had children : Raymond,
Ruby, Wilber and Lesley; (5) Priscilla Ada Rhea (185G-
1920), who married Dr. J. G. Ivey; (6) Florence Rhea
(1859-1893), who married: John C. Locke, and had children:
Charles L. and David Rhea; (7) David M. Rhea (1870-;.,
Who majrried Margaret Haston, and had one child, Flora;
(8) Robert Lee Rhea (1872-1909); (9) Thomas B. Rhea
(1873), wiho married May Leigg, and had one child,
Robert L.
5 Prances Rhea (1826-1888), married James T. Preston,
son of John Preston and Margaret Brown (Preston) Pres-
ton. Children under James T. Preston.
H Samuel Rtiea (1829-1902), married (1857) Lucy J.
Williams (sister of Cynthia and' Cornelia Williams), and
had children: (i) James Gopeland Rhea (1862-1889), who
married Anna Louisa Owens, and had one child, James
Copeland Rhea II; (2) Samuel Williams Rhea (1864-), who
292
Digitized by VjOOQIC
RHEA
married Dora Welsh, and' hiadl one child, Frances; (3)
TTiomas Humes Rhea, w4io married Mrs. Latham, and had
ane child, Thoanas Humes II; (4) Mary Lucy Rhea, who
married Jacob W. Denny, and haidi children : Lucy who
married Charles Worley, Maxie wtho married Wilbur Han-
ner, and Mary who married' Scott Patlon. (These sisters
had a triple wedding) ; (5) Annie Elizabeth Rhea, who
married William T. Enser; (6) Kate Rhea, wh<o married
John H. Anderson, and had children: George Rhea and
Lucy; (7) Hal Henry Rhea: (8) Fannie Mcllwaine Rhea.
7 Theodora Bland Rhea (1833-1868) married (1856)
Frances Elizabeth Rhea (daughter of Raberl P. Rhea and
Sarah G. (Preston) Rhea, and had children: (1) Elizabeth
Dysart Rhea (1857-), who married Alexander Anderson
(son of Audley Anderson and Cornelia (Alexander) Ander-
son), and had one child: Audley Rhea Anderson II; (2)
Robert Preston Rhea (1859-), who married Nannie Bell
Gillespie, and had children: Joseph Earfhart Rhea (1882-),
who married Jeannebte McNabb; Frank Bland Rlhea (1884-),
who married Nell Hill, and had one child, Sara Carolyn;
Lillian Burts (1889-); Robert Preston Rhea II (1894-); (3)
James Theoderic Rhea (I860-), who married Caroline Lea
Riggs and had dhildren: Clarence Ward (1890-), Williaan
Edwin (1894-), and James Theoderic Rhea II (1902-) ; (4)
Sarah Gilleland Rhea (1862-), who married Frank Milton
Adams, and had children: Frank Milton Adams II, (1888),
who married Jessie Lee French; Leta Rhea Adams (1894-) ;
Yancey Dailey Adams (1899-); (5) Fannie Rhea
(1863-1864).
As a family the Rheas have followed principally the pur-
suits of ministers, lawyerr, dbolore, farmers and merchants.
There were several of the family who were stockholders
and assisted in organizing Hihe Past Tennessee and Virginia
Railroad (now the Souhern).
Seldon Nelson, in his series of articles on the Rhea
family says: "The descendants (of Rev Joseph Riiea) have
occupied nearly every position in life .... The ministry
seems to have been the chief calling in the professional
line, but 1«here have been some merchant princes among
tShem There have been very few poliiticians among
the descendants, and very few who have held office"
The family has always responded to 'the country's call
in time of war. There were three who served in the Revo-
lutionary War : Rev. Joseph Rhea as Chaplain, and his sons
John and Matthew Rhea, as officers. At least four of the
293
Digitized by
Google
NOTABLE SOUTHERN FAMILIES
Rhea family were in the Waj- of 1812, of two were cap-
tured, Three served, and one died, in '*he Mexican War.
About eighty members of the family served in the War
Between the States, all but two being in the Confederate
Army. Of these, two died from <iheir wounds; five wei>e
killed in 'batile; and were made prisoners, or captured.
Many were on staffs of officers or commanded companies,
regiments or battalions. At least fourteen of tfhe family
served in the Spanish-American War. One entered ifcbe
World War, during its first year, as a surgeon with the
Canadian Contingent. More than sixty, most of whom
were officers, served at the front and at least one wsls killed
and several were wounded or gassed.
The following is partial list of those who have served :
WAR RECORD
Revolutionary War
Rev. Joseph Rhea. Chaplain wiflh Colonel Christain's
Cherokee Company.
I John Rhea, son of Rev. Joseph Rhea and Elizabeth
(Mcllwaine) Rhea, Ensign in tihe Fifth Virginia Regiment
of Continenltbls. Took part in the battles of King's Moun-
tain and Brandywine.
II Matthew Rhea, son of Rev. Joseph Rhea and Eliza-
beth (Mcllwaine) Rhea. He served with disitinction, as
Major, in the Fifth Virginia Regiment of 'Oontinentals and
)took part in the 'baltftles of King's Mountain and Brandywine.
War of 1812
Joseph Matthew Rlhea, son of Matthew Rhea and Jane
(Preston) Rhea. Orderly sergeant. Was in Canada as a
private secretary to an officer.
Robert Preston Rhea, son of Matdhew Rhea and Jane
(Predion) Rhea. Served under General Scott. Was cap-
lured by the British near Canadian Border and taken to
Quebec, cast into prison, and put in irons.
Robert Rhea, son «of William Rhea and Elizabeth
(Lockhart) Rhea. Major in Allison's Regiment East Ten-
nessee Militia.
Mexican War
Audley Anderson, son of Edward B. Anderson and
Eleanor (Rhea) Anderson. Served under Colonel George. R.
McClellan. Was also in War Between the States.
294
Digitized by VjOOQIC
RHEA
Dr. Samuel R. Anderson, son of Ctolonel Isaac Campbell
Anderson and Margaret (Rhea) Anderson. Lieutenant in
Shaver's Company, Oolonel MeClellaJi Gommancter. W6is in
twx) battles. Captured many prisoners and did not lose
a man.
William Rhea, son of Joseph Campbell Rhea and Susan
Rhea (Preston) Rhea. Gmdua«ted at West Poin*. Was First
Lieutenant in United States Arany. Died of meajsles at
Moutoivy, Mexico, while in service, andi was buried there.
War Between the States
Fedeml Army:
John A. Anderson, son of Joseph Anderson and Eliza-
l>efh (Rhea) Anderson. Served in First Tennessee Infantry.
Died of hiardships and exposure.
Alexander Dodson Rhea, son of Joihn Rhea and Eliza-
beth ( Doidison) Rhea. Enlisted as a private in First Tennes-
see Infantry. JPromoted, in turn, ^lo Lieoitenant and Captain
in First Tennessee Infantrj^, and later, Major in Eleventh
Tennessee Cavalry.
Confederate Army:
Aud'ley, Robert R., Samuel R. and William R. Anderson,
sons of Edward B. Anderson and) Eleanor (Rhea) Anderson:
Audley Anderson (vv^ho had previously served in the Mex-
ican War) served in Fourth Tennessee Cavalry: Was
wx>unded seven times in Bailie of Chattanooga (Septiember
18(33) and d'wd of his wounds. Robert R. Anderson was in
Company (i. Sixtieth Tennessee Cavalry. Samuel R. Ander-
son Sieved, first, in Third Tennessee Infantry; later trans-
ferred to Sixty-Third IVnnessee Infantry. William R. An-
derson was an enrolling ofFicer and belonged to llhe Reserve
Corps. ^
\\'illiam and Joihn Buchanan, sons of Ryburn Buchanan
and Elizabeth (Rhea) Buchanan: William Buchanan
servoi in Sixty-third Tennessee Infantry, and John Buch-
anan in tlie Western Army.
Samiuel, Jonathan Waverly, J'ohn Lynn and Robert
Luckey Baohman, sons of Jonafchan Dachman and Fannie
(Rhea) Bachman: Saniuel Bachiman enlisted in a Hawkins
County, Tennessee, Company. Died of Fever oA Cumberland
Gap in early part of the war. Jonathan Waverly Bachman
first enliste»d to serve under General Cooke, in Virginia; later
sei^ved as Lieutenant. Caj>tain, and 'Chaplain in Sixtieth
Tennessee Cavalry. John Lynn Bachman served in Thirty-
seventh Vii'ginia Infantry, Stonewall Jackson Division.
295
Digitized by VjOOQIC
NOTABLE SOUTHERN PAMIUES
Robert Lucky Bachbian served) in Company G. Sixteenth
Tennessee Cavalry.
Joseph R, and Samuel H Crawford, sons of Thomas
Crawford and Elizabeth (Rhea) Crawford: Joseph R.
Crawford was tihird sergeant, Company G. Nine^lieenth Ten-
nessee Infanftry, and, later, Captain of Oompany G., Six-
teenth Tennessee Cavalry. Samuel H. Crawford served in
Company F., Sixty-'third Tennessee Infantry.
Robert P. Pickle, son of Fickle and Margaret
(Rhea) Fickle. Was First Lieutenant of Reserve Corps.
Nicholeis, Samuel R., Isaac and Powell Fain, sons of
General Richard Fain and Eliza (Anderson) Fain. Nicho-
las, Sanuiel., and Isaac Fain served in Sixily-third Tennessee
Infaiiiirv, and Powell Fain in Sixtieth Tennessee Cavalry.
\^'iIii;lm 1). and Aibraham L. Gammon, sons of William
Gammon and Rebecca (Anderson) Gamimon. William D.
Giwmnon was First Lieutenant, ComjianyC, Nineteenth Ten-
jiessH' Infantry. AbraJtiam L. Ga)mimon was in Reserve Corps
and served in latter part of war.
Smnuel R. Gammon, son of Gajtoin Abraham L. Gam-
mon and Nancy (Anderson) Gammon. Captain of Haw-
kins County Oompany, Tennessee.
William Rhea Irvin, son of Monltgomery Irvin and
Prances (Rlhea) Irvin.
Cornelius E. Lucky, son of Judge Seth J. W. Lucky and
Sarah (Rhea) Lucky. Served in Company K., Sixtieth Ten-
nessee Infantry.
Samiuel Alexander Lynn, son of John Lynn and Nancy
(Rhea) Lynn.
Harry Hill McAlister, son of Williaim King McAlister
and Fannie Rhea (Anderson) McAlister. Conmiissary De-
partment of Confederate States Army.
Isaac Anderson Newlands son of Joseph Newland and
Rel>ecca (Anderson) Newlaiid. Second Corporal, Company
B., Fourth Tennessee Battalion. Was capltured at Wood-
bury.
Thomas andi Jaanes T. Preston, sons of Colonel John
Preston and Margaret Brown (Preston) Pres'ton: Thomas
Preston was killed in Battle of Shiloh. James T. Preston
serv^ed in Militia of Virginia.
Robert J. Preston, son of John F. Pre^tlon and Jane
(Rhea) Preston. Officer in a Virginia Regiment.
John H. and James T. Rhea, sons of James B. Rhea and
Elizabeth (Carter) Rhea: John H. Rhea First Corporal,
Company G., Nineteenth Tennessee Infantry. Wounded at
296
Digitized by
Google
RHEA
Ctoickamauga (1863) and died from his wounds. James T.
Bihea was in Tennessee Reserve Oopps.
Matthew, John Ppes>ton and Robert Campbell Rhea, sons
of Rober* Preston Rhea and Nancy (Davidson) Rhea.
Ma<fhew Rhea served in Oompany F., Sixty-third Tennessee
Infantry. John Preston Rhea was a sergeant in Reserve
Corps.
William R. and John A. Rihea, sons of William Rhea and
Mary (Rockhold) Rhea. William R. Rhea served) in Com-
pany G., Nineteenth Tennessee Infantry. Losit a leg at
Battle of Resacca, Georgia. Jotin A. Rhea served in Tennes-
see Reserve Corps.
Sain)uel Wood Rhea, son of John Nancy Rhea and Ruth
M. (Rockh<r»ld) Rhea. Served in Oompany F., Sixty-third
Tennessee Infantry.
William Abram and Matthew Rhea, sons of John Rhea
and Elizabeth (Rhea) Rhea. William Abram RSiea served
in the Fifth Tennessee Cavalry. Oompany H. Matthew Rhea
served* in Company G., Fifth Tennessee Regimenl
Walter Preston Rhea, son of Joseph Matthew Rhea and
Catherine (Myers) Rhea, served as First Lieutenant in
Company F., Sixty-illhird Tennessee Infantry.
Matthew Rhea VI, Abram Rhe^a and Walter Preston
Rhea, sons of Matthew Rhea V and Mary (Lrooney) Rhea:
Matthew khea VI was First Lieutenant, Company A., of a
Tennessee Regimenl Was carrying the sword which had
belonged to bis grandfather, Maklthew Rhea IV, when cap-
tured, at Belmont, Missouri. This he refused to siurrender
and was killed. Abram Rhea served in Company B., Thir-
teenth Tennessee Infantry. Walter Preston Rhea was Cap-
tain, Fourth Tennessee Oavalry.
James C John W. an^d William Alexander Rhea, sons
of Joseph Rhea and Emaline M. (Alexander) Rhea. All
were in Company D., Sixth Texas Cavalry. William A.,
Gaprtain; John W., Orderly Sergeani. All were wounded
in BaWle of Corinth. John W. was taken prisoner and car-
ried to a Federal Hospital wihere he died of his wounds.
Robert Bruce Rhea, son of Matthew Rhea and Margaret
(Breed'en) Rhea, was in Reserve Corps.
Joseph and Robert James, son of Robert P. Rhea and
Sarah G. (Preston) Rhea: Both served in Company G.,
Nineteenih Tennessee Infan'try. Robert James Rhea was
wounded, in batUe, near Alllanta, Georgia, and died from
his wooindis.
John Lynn, Joseph Brainerd, James Alexander, Robert
297
Digitized by VjOOQIC
NOTABLE SOUTHERN PAMIUES
Mowison and William Lynn Rhea, sons of Samuel and
Martha (Lynn) Rhea: John Lynn Rhea served in Oompany
G., Nineteenth Tennessee Cavalry. James Alexander Rlhea
was First Lieutenant, Company G., Nineteenth Tennessee
Infantry; laiter, Sixtieth Tennessee Regiment; was eledted
Major and, afterwards, Lieutenant Colonel. Was wouwded
and captured^ by Federals and recaptured by his own men.
Robert Morrison Rhea was Orderly Sergeant in Company F,
Sixty-third Tennessee Infantry. William Lynn Rhea was in
Reserve Corps of Tennessee.
James David Rhea, son of Joseph Campbell Rhea and
•Catherine (Reynolds) Rhe«a, was CSapitain, Company G.,
Tbird Tennessee Regiment. "Captain James David Rhea
was captured aJt Fort Donaldson, and carried prisoner to
Caffnp Cftiase from which he escaped". (Oonfed'erale
Ve^teran, Feb. 1914).
John Preston Sheffey, son of Jufclge James White Shef-
fey and Eleanor Fairman (Preston) Sbeffey, was Captain of
a ViiNginia Company.
James Lowry White II, Dr. William Yoiung Gonn White
(and Preston John White, sons of James Lowry White and
Margaret Rhea (Preston) White: James Lav^Ty White II
was Captain of Com;pany K, Thirty-seventh Virginia In-
fantry, in Stonewall Jackson's Brigade. Dr. William Young
Conn White was Captain in Coanpany B, Thirty-seventh
Infantry, Virginia.
Spanish American
William Buchanan II, son of William Buchanan and
Addie (Hill) Buchanan, was Sergeant, Company I, Sixth
U. S. Volunteers, Immunes.
James R. Fain, son of John H. Fain and Fannie A.
(Rhea) Fain, was Second Lieutenant of Engineers, Volun-
teers, IJ. S. Regiment.
Samuel Edwand Lynn, son of James Lynn and Sarah
(Rogan) Lynn, was First Lieuftenant, Company F, Third
Tennessee Infantry.
Perry Lynn, son of James Lynn and Sarah (Rogan)
Lynn, was Sergeant, CJomipany K, Third Tenn<?^see Volun-
teers, Infantry.
Samuel Dysart McAlister, son of Judge William K. Mc-
Alister II and Laura Brown (Dortch) McAlister, was First
Lieutenant, Company G, Fourth Tennessee Infantry.
William A. Rhea son of Jchn A. Rhea and Lora (Aber-
nathy) Rhea, served in Third Tennessee Infantry.
298
Digitized by
Google
RHEA
FVancis Rodgers Rhea, son of Alexainder Dodeon Rhea
and Malltie (Hatchet) Rhea, was Ctopporal, Oompeuiv L,
Second Texas Volunteer Infantry. While encami>ea, in
Florida, he suffered a severe attack of typhoid fever.
Samuel Rhea Rodgers, son of Judge Samuel Andrew
Rodlgers and Sarah ElizaJbeth (Rhea Rodgers. Was Second
Lieu«lienant, Company B, Fourth Tennessee Infantry. Served
in OUiba.
WORLD WAR
Aviation
Robert Lee Burch II, son of Robert Lee Burch and
Rachel C. (McAlister) Burch. Student in Marine Aviation
Corps. When volunteered was under twenty years of age.
Earnest Dooley, son of I. Earnest Dooley and Mary
^Andes) Dooely. Lieutenant. Served overseas.
Marshall Franklin Henly, son of Samel 0. Henly and
(Anderson Henly. Stuidtent in SamJ).
McDowell Lyon, son of J. B. Lyon and Lizzie (McDowell)
Lyon. Served' as indlinuctor in Aviation.
Robent Rhea Mahoney, son of Oscar E. Mahoney and
Emma (Anderson) Mahoney. Studerit at Camp Sarfley,
which was an aerial gunnery school.
Nathan Bachman Preston, son of Samuel Rhea Preston
and Ida (Sutphen) Preston. Clerical of Aviation Corps.
Served Overseas.
Medicals
William Anderson, son of Charles And'erson and Mary
(Bachman) Anderson.
James Sumpter Anderson, son of Eki'gar Anderson and
Beulah (Sumpter J Anderson. Was at Camp Gordon in
hospital work ano was returned to VanderbiJl University to
finisih his medical corse.
Malcom Campbell, M. D., son of Dr. Edward M. Camp-
bell and Ellen Sheffey (Whifte) Campbell. Captain. First
served for one year on the Local Draft Board in New York
City; later was in active .service at •Qamp Syracuse. During
the Influenza epidemic the Government took over Crouse-
Irving HospJtial, in Syracuse, and he was put at the heact
of it, until transferred to Fort Ethan Allen where he was
discharged firom service.
Lindsley Newland, M. D., son of Robert Rhea Newland
and Bettie (Wolford) Newland. Served overseas in Ambu-
lance Corps, Rainbow Divison.
299
Digitized by VjOOQIC
NOTABLE SOUTHERN FAMILIES
Don Preston, M. D., son of Colonel William Peters and
Margaret (Sheffey) Peters. Served overseas.
Jo'hn Preston IV, M. D., son of Jiames T. Preston and
Franoes (Rhea) Preston. Was in VolunHteer Medical Service
Corps, in Texas.
Robert Sheffey, M. D., son Dr. Robert J. Preston and
Maritiha (Sheffey) Preston.
Lawrenoe Rh'ea, M. D., son of William A. Rhea and Ella
(Foot) Rhea. Offered his services to the British Government
at the conrnienceanent of the World Wa^r. He was afltlached
to the McGill Medical Staff as Li'etenant, and sailed for
France wMi the Second Oanadian Contingent, in 1915. Pen-
ding the completion of llhe Canadian General Hospital, No.
3, at Boulogne, he was stationed in London as purchasing
agent for equipment, and, on its completion, b<e assumed
charge if its pathological work. He was promoted to Major,
in 1016. His health failing, from over work., he was sent to
England for oomplette res^t but did not recuperate suf-
ficiently to resume active duty and was invalided to Can-
ada in 1918. Major Rhea received many honors while in
England and Franoe. Hie was a member of he committee
pppoinfed'by Mie British Government to inspect all Military
hospitals in France. And was selected <l'o personally con-
duct the Qaieen of England on Jher inspection of hispitals.
Edward Randolph Sumpter, son of Edward Randolph
Sumpter and Minnie (Wade) Sumpter. Served overseas in
Ambulence Corps No 55. Was on the Loraine Sector, bring-
ing wo'und«pd froim the front, when his amublance was
blawn up and he escaped with slight wounds.
Navys
(Xiarles Linwood Adams, son of W. H. Adams and
Eleanor Lynn (Rhea) Adaims.
William King Biddle son of Ro^beiib Biddle and Elizabeth
A. (McAlisiter) Biddle. Lieutenant Oonnmander of Inspec-
ton office U. S. Navy Yard, Boston.
Lloyd Willifemi Boggs, son of William H. Boggs and
Eliza Jane (Crowdier) Boggs. Machinist First Class.
Henry Hamilton, son of George Hamilton and Bettie
Dycart (Lucky) Hamilton.
■ ' Edward Alexander Magill, son of William L. Magil and
Ma^ry (Gaines) Magill. Entered Naval service I>eceanber,
1917; was commissioned Ensign, April 1918, and sent t)o
Annapolis for further training, from there was ordered to
U. S. S. Sooith Dakota, a battleship doing convoy duty,
300
Digitized by
Google
RHEA
where he remained until tthe Armistice w^s signed.
Army:
Rr^ainerd Adams, son of W. H. Adams and Eleanor
(Rhea) Adiams.
John Waverly And'erson, son of Oharles Anderson and
Mary (BaOhman) Anbderson. Second Lieutenant in Regular
Army.
Paul Fain An'derson, son of William S. Anderson and
Ella (Spurgeon) Anderson. Served overseas.
Joseph S. Baohman IL son of I>r. Joseph S. Bachman
and Ha';*ie A. (Brewer) Bachman. Died in Camp of In-
fluenza.
William Lasbrooke Baldwin, son of Baldwin and
Jennie (Carr) Baldwin. In Engineering Oorps.
Horen Hoge Brewer, son of John Alf Brewer and Willie
Sue (Hoge) Breweir. Sergeant First Glass. In Quarter-
masters Deparlmenil, at Oamp Gordlon, Georgia.
William Phillip Brewer II, son of John Alf Brewer and
Willie Sue (Hoge) Brewer. Served overseas. Company A,
35©;h Infantry, Sath Division.
James Carlock Brewer son of James King Brewer and
Olive (Carlock) Brewer. Lieailenant. Was killed in Battle
of Bellau Wo»ods. Received two GitaJlions for bravery.
Morgan William Brown VII, son of Morgan \Villiam
Brown VI, and Fannie R. (McAlister) Brown. Volunteered.
Hill McAlister Burch, son of Robert Lee Burch and
Rachel C. (McAlister) Burch. Was in S. A. T. C.
John Jonett Campbell, son of Frank Campbell and
Sallie Jonett. Medhani'cal Department. Camp Mabry.
Clifton Carson, son of Sturm W. Carson au'd Margaret
(Bucihanan) Carson. Sergeant Fii^t 'Class. Served in Com-
pany E, 302 Stevedbre Infantry.
Hfugh Brewer Cowan, son of Rev. James Chalmers
Gowon and Margaret D. (Brewer) Oowan. Served overseas.
Benjamin Mills Crenshaw II, son of Benjamin Mills
Crensihaw and Mary Magadelene (White) Crenshaw. Cap-
tain. Served in France; was wound<ed and gassedi. He re-
mialined in the Army after the Armistice was signed.
William Rhea Dabney, son of William Presley Dabney
and Annie (Rhea) Dabney. Captain.
Robert N. Dosser II, son of Robert N. Dosser and Martha
E. (Fain) Dosser.
Foster Rhea Dulles, son of William Dulles and Sophia
(Rhea) Dulles.
James DoggeDti Earnest, son of Nicholas P. Earnest and
Lida (Doggett) Earnest. Student in 'Oamp.
301
Digitized by
Google
NOTABLE SOUTHERN FAMILIES
Carl, Joseph and William Earnest, sons of William A.
Earnest and Florence (Donnelly) Earnest. All served over-
seas, and were in several battles.
Joseph Gibson Erwin, son of James Brwin and Mar-
garebta (McAlis*er) Erwin. Corporal in Balliterj^ D, H5lh
Field Artiillery. Served overseas.
Robert Davidson Erwin, son of James Erwin and Mar-
ga»retts (McAlister) Erwin. Home guard; too yoking to go
to France, was seventeen years of age.
Robert Rogan and Richard Fain, sons of G. Powell and
Sallie E. (Fain) Fain.
Worley W. Fain, son of John Mitchell Fain and Ger-
trudte (Worley) Fain. First Lieoitenant in Virginia Coast
Artillery.
James Rhea Fain, son of Joihn Mitohell Fain and Ger-
trude (Worley) Fain. Lieutenant. Was sent by the Govern-
ment to teach in a Military School in South Carolina.
Saimuel Rhea Gamnion, son of William F. Gammon, of
Bristol, Tennessee. Lieutenant..
Joseph Dooley Hoss, son of Wright Hoss andl Rebecca
(Dooley) Hoss. Served overseas.
J'oihn Hyde, son of Rev. 'Charles R. Hyde and Annie Rhea
(Bachman) Hyde.
Samuel Lee King II, son of Samuel Lee King and Annie
(Phipps) King. Second Lieutenant. After going ovi>rseas
was I'oaned to Great Bribfain; was assigned' to Twenlfy-flrst
London Rifles. Was in battle.
Edward Calmpbell Lenoir, son of Henry Raimsey Lenoir
and Bessie ('Campbell) Lenoir. Se^rgeanit in 105bh Trench
Mortar Battery, a unit of the ThirtieiJi Division (Old Hicory
Division). Served in France. His funit was sent to the
front with another division where t^hey were used as shock
troops when not using their Hirench mortars. Was at the
front when the Armistice was signed; was sent into Lux-
emburg as part of the Army of Occupation. After aiviving
in France he was offered an opportainity of going into an
Officers Training School bu<t preferred going to the front.
David Rhea Locke, son of John C. Locke and Florence
(Rhea) Locke.
Robert Anderson Lowery, son of John Taylor Lowery
an'dl Amanda (Anderson) Lowery. Gorpoml in BaHtery A,
Thirty-sixth Division of 133rd Field Artillery. Served over-
seas. While enrou'te to France his transport had a battle
with submarines.
302
Digitized by VjOOQIC
RHEA
John ClMtrles Moore 11, son of John Ghajrles Moore and
Sarah J. (Bachman) Mioore. In Radio Service.
Nathan T. Moore, son of John Charles Moore and Sarah
J. (Bachman) Moore. In Artillery.
Oscar E. Mahoney II, son of Oscar E. Maihoney and Emily
Jane (Ander&on) Mahoney. Was in S. A. T. C.
Harry Hill McAli»ter III, son of Harry Hill McAlister II
and Miaudie (Davi'dwn) McAlisa-er. Sergeant in Q. M. C.
Camp Dix.
Iro Burns McAlister son of Harry Hill McAlister II and
Maud^ (Davidson) McAlister. Sergeant in 107th Supply
Train. Served overseas. Was on the ill fated) Tuscania
wh'en it went cbwn off the north coast of Ireland.
Vance Newland, son of Samuel A. Newland and Helen
(Brown) Newland. Served overseas.
Joseph Jtoies Pence, son of Elkana Pence and Fanny A.
(Newland) Pence.
Robert White Preston, son of Dr. John Preston IV and
Annie Lewis (While) Preston. 'Served in Quartermasters
Deparhiif^nt, Gamp McArfchur, Texas.
Seaton Tinsley Preston, son of J'ames B. Preston and
Hattiie B. (Tinsley) ) Preston. Lieutenant. Served overseas.
James Dysant Rhea, &on of James T. Rhea and Frances
Bell (Rhea) Rhea. Captain. Served overseas in tihe Reniting,
Requisition and Claims hramch of fthe Supply Department.
Lawrence Herndon Rhea, €K>n of William Alexander
Rhea II and Mary (Herndon) Rhea. Second Lieutenant in
Coast Artillery. Was under orrfers to sail when Armistice
was signed.
Paul D. Rober«feon, son of Rev. George E. Robertson and
Mattie (Earnest) Robertson. Served- overseas.
Rayimond, Wither and Les^ley Rhiea, sons of Bryant W.
Rh(m and Sadie (Roseberry) Rhea.
McDonald Caimpbell Youmans, son of Lawrence W.
Youmans and Margaret P. (Campbell) Youmans. Entered
as private, his Second Lieutenant commission reached him
just as the Artmistice was signed.
Note. To William Lynn and Mary Rhea Sumpter, th^
compiler of this article is indebted for the early data given
hen\ and for other generous assistance.
Digitized by
Google
Digitized by
Google
SHELBY
The first Sh-elby in Aanerica, said lo have come from
Glamniopgansfhire, in Wales, wus ''Evan I>hu Shelby mar-
ried' Catherine Davies". This couple cajme to America about
1730 and setJQed in Prince George County (afterwards Fred-
erick County, Maryland), near Hagerstown, in wtiat is novr
Washington County, Maryland, had the following children:
I Maj. Moses Shelby, born in Wales, 1718, died' Mecklen-
burg OcKunty, North Carolina; married Isabel .
born in Maryland, diedi alter 1780.
II Brig.-Gen Evan Shelby, born Wales, 1720, died King's
Meadow, December 4, 1794; marrit^d first, Letitia Cox.%
daughter of David Coxe of Maryland, born Maryland 17^3,
died September 6. 1777, and is buried at Oh'arlG^I.fesville,
Virginia; marriea second, Mrs. Isabella Ellio«bt, widow of
James Elliott, in the state of FVanklin (now Washington
County, Tennessee).
III Thomas Shellry, born about 1725, died Mecklenburg
County, North Carolina, eboul 1776; married .
IV Eleanor Shelby married John Polk in North Caro-
lina, bom Carlisle, Pennsylvania, abou* 1740, died Tennes-
see.
V John Shelby married Louisa Looney.
VI Mary Sheby, bom 1734, died 1813; nmrri^^
Adam Alexander, born in Pennsylvania, 1728, died' 11-13-
1798.
VII Rees Shelby.
VIII , a daughter who married Joseph Chap-
lain.
The Shelbys are identified wi'lh the eariy history of T*'n-
nessee and Kentucky, and they share with the Seviei^ ani
the 'Isbells, the honor of having the greatest number or
representatives in the Bftltle of Kings Mountain. Thcit'
305
Digitized by VjOOQIC
NOTABLE SOUTHERN FAMILIES
were seven Seviers, six Isbells and six Shelbys. By a pe*-
culiar coincidence also, Ihe youngest soldiers in tihat
famous BaMe were of these families: James Sevier, aged
sixteen, Wiilliaim Isbell aged fifteen, ani David Shelby aged
seventeen.
I MOSES SHELBY
Muses Shelby, son of Evan Dim Shelby and (ktherine
Davies Shelby, joined the Rreat tide of Southern eoiiigpation,
and settled on Caldw^irs Qreek, in the Eastern part of Meck-
lenburg County (now Cabarrus Co-unty) North Carolina,
in 1760. His will is on record in Mecklenburg County.
Some think he was married twice as he mentions in his will
*'wife and six children". His children were:
/ 1 Thomas Shelby, wlio marri€hd Sarah Helms,
i 2 Mary Shelby, born 1746, died 1822, married 1768
Oliver Wiley.
3 Evan Shelby married Susan Polk Alexander.
4 Moses Shelby, married .
5 Eleanor Shelby, mairied Canithi»rs.
4 Margaret Shelby, born 1772, died 1838; married
Oliver Harris, born 1763, died 1833.
7 Rachel Shelby.
8 William Shelby.
I 9 John Shelby.
10 Isabella Shelby.
11 Catherine Shelby.
.Children of Thomas Shelby and Sarah Helms :
The only kn(>wii child wfis Sarah Ellen Shelby, niamed
Jjunes McLarty, born hi Mtx^klenburg County. Ner>h r;ara-
lina, and died in Douglas County, Georgia. The only known
child of Sarah Ellen Shelby McLaRy was Calherine Mc-
Larty, married Charles Shelby Polk (their Shn Iby grand-
fathers were first cousins). She was born in Mecklenburg
County, NoiHJi Carolina, in 1S17. died in Douglas Cuu ily,
(r'orgia, in 1905.
Children of Evan Shelby and Susan Alexandi»r:
The only known child was Mary Shelby, uiarried
Thomas Polk about 1786, died about 1842.
This couple had issuf^ :
(1) Shelby Polk, marpicxi Winnifred Colburn. Ho
(migrated to Tennessee in 1813 and die-d about 184-7, leaving
is^aie: Esther; Headley; Thomas; Williaim; Shelby; Mary:
F^liza.
3U»
Digitized by VjOOQIC
SHELBY
(2) Andrew Marshall Polk, married first to Miss Oar-
raway, had issue: Thomas J.; James K.; married second^
to Lorena Autery, had issue: L. L. Polk, of Raleig-h, North
Gai'olina.
(3) Thomas Shelby Polk, Fourth, married Samh
Brooks. H«ui issue: William; Andrew; Marshall. The
latter two sons were killed in the Confederate se^rvice.
(4) Jobe Polk, died unmarried*.
(5) Haiuvah Polk, Tuarriert first. Mr. Sides, issue : Han-
nah; second, Adam Long, issue: Thomas; Henry; Adam
and! several daughters.
(6) Dicey Polk, married FVnncis Colhurn; einigraf«»(}
to Tennessee.
(7) Patsy Polk, married William OrittendfMi; emigrated
to Tennessee.
(8 Mary Polk, married Aaron Little. She died in IS02
leaving ten chldren.
(9) Elizabeth Polk, married Richmond McManiH.
Descendants of Mary Shelby and Oliver Wiley
Kvan Shelby Wiley, bom 1783, died' 1825, married
in 1804 Mary McCaleb, (bom 1786, died 1840). He emi-
*grated to Alabama, and was a farmer and miller near
Ciourtland. He had a son, James McGaleb Wiley, bor;i
(^barrus Ctounty, North Oapolina, March 12th, 1806, died
Troy, Alabama, 1878. He married first, April l»th, 1827,
Elizabeth Duckworth. Married second', November 15th,
1843, Cornelia Appling. Married third, January 3nd', 1875,
Rf^-hi^cca Govington Wales. Issue by first wife: Rhydonia
Wii.^y, James Horatio Wiley, Thomas Walter Wiley, and
Heiuy Clay Wiley. Henry Clay Wiley, was bom at Clay-
ton, Alabama, on October 4tih, 1840, and resided at Troy,
Alabama. He married first, in 1861, Henrietta Worthy.
Issue by first wife, Henrietta Worthy Wiley, Lizzie, Rhy-
donia Ophelia. Henry Olay Wiley married second, Ophelia
Worthy, sist*T of his first wife, and 'had issue: Henrietta,
Walter and Harr>\ Children of James McGaleb Wiley,
and Cornelia Appling Wiley: (1) Ariosoto Appling Wiley,
born at Clayton, Alabama, November 6th, 1848, died at Hot
Springs, Virginia, June 17th, 1908, married Maltie A. Noblo
at Montgomery, Alabama, November 6t.h, 1877, and had
issue: Noble James Wiley of t'he Unitt^d Slates Army. (2>
Oliver Oicero Wiley, born' at Troy, Alabama, January 30lh,
1851, died Troy, Alabama, October 18Ui, 1917; married at
Troy, Jame 25th, 1874, Augusta Murphy, and had issue:
307
Digitized by VjOOQIC
N)TABLE SOUTHERN PAMIUES
Oliver Lee Wiley, married Mary GrahiBim McKellar. 3asaie»
McGaJeib Wiley, married Mary Adielaide Bailey. Lois Wiley,
nwLTTied Marshall Bibb Fobner, Julia LAmar Wiley, mairiedl
James T. Brantley.
II BMG.-GEN. EVAN SHELBY
Evan Shelby, son of Evan Dbu Shelby and Gatherine^
Davies Shetby, was born in Wales in 1720 and died in
King's Meajdow, now Bristol, December 4, 1794. He married
first, Let Jiia Coxe, daughter of David Ooxe of Maryland, who
was born in 1723 in Maryland and died September 6, 1777^
and is buried in Oharlottesville, Virginia. He married
second, Mrs. Isabe/M Elliott in the Staite of Franklin, now
Washington Ooointy, Tennessee.
Tliere is not mu<^ mention made of Gen. Evan Shelby's
second marriage, but the following paper was found among
the papers of Gov. Isaac Shelby, who was his father'*
exe<Jutor :
"I now certify, to whom it may concern, 'Iftiat I per-
formed the ceremony of marriage between the late Gen.
Evan Shelby and Isabella Elliott (widow of James Elliott)
wtoen I acted as one of the associate Judjges of the assumed
filiate of Franklin.
"Given under my hand, this 14th day of Nov., 1779.
"Signed?: Jno. Anderson
"Witness: J. A. Thompson, J. Shelby".
A daughter, name unmentioned', was given land on ac^
count of this certificate.
Brig.^Gen. Shelby was first appointed Captain of a Com-
pany of Rangers in tlie French and Indian Wars. He was.
Captain in <;ihe Provincial Army and personal friend of Gen.
Washington, being with him at Great Meadows and Ft.
Necessity. H^ was also in Braddock's expedition. Led the
advance of the Army under Forbes, which took Ft,
Duquesne in 1758.
In eariy life he was interested in .the fur trade in Mechil-
macinack, on the Great Lakes.
In 1756 he was a resident of Maryland and
Potomac County. In 1772 emigrated (o Fincastle County,.
Virginia. In 1774 he commanded a Company under Dun-
miQpe and Lewis against the Indians. He served at Point
Pleasant. In 1776 he was appointelJ by Gov. Henry of Vir-
308
Digitized by
Google
SHELBY
ginia as Major in the army of Ool. Ohrislian against the
Qhepokees. In 1777 he was appointed CJolonel of «. Sundry
g-fiurrison exposed on frontiers of Virginia. In 1779 he led
an expedition of 2000 men against the Ohickamauga fn-
<}ians, for which service he was tJianked by the Continental
Ckyngress. Later he was appointed Brigadier General in the
Stiate Militia.
After the French «ind Indian wars he moved his family
from Marytandi to Salem, on Hhe Yadkin River, in North
OaroKna, and in 1765 removed to Southeajst Virginia. It
was smpposed at that time to be in Virginia, but the survey
of 1779 showed his land llo be in North Carolina. This
property was in w4iat is now Sullivan County, Tennessee,
and he called it "Sapling Grove". He also owned land in
Burke's Garden Farm, Tazewell County, Virginia. Rrig.-
Gen. Shelby is buried at Bristol, Virgini^u
His descendants have as a maternal ancestor, Opechfin-
caiK)e, said to 'be a tbrot'her of Powh'at'on, the Indian C^ief.
Powhatan died in 1618 and was succeeded by Opetichap(aii,
who was old audi was deposed by Openchancanoe. The
tradition in the time of Beverly was that Opench^ancanoe
was not the real brother of Powhatan but a stranger from
Mexico or some South-western county. He onade his lask
attack on the white people and wteus killed April 14th, 1644,
when nearly one hunch^ years old. He had a grand-
daughter, Nicke/lti, whose dcuighter married Nathaniel Davis
in 1618. This couple had a son, Robert Davis, who was the
grandfather of Letitia Coxe, wife of Brig.-Gen. Shelby.
Brig.-Gen. Shelby and Letitia Coxe Shelby had the fol-
lov\ing children :
(1) Susannali Shelby, born 1746, died young.
(2) John Shelby, born 1748, married Elizjabeth Pile.
(3) Isaac Shelby, married Susannah Hart. He was
born in Maryland in 1750, married in Maryland in ^783,
died in Kentucky, July 18, 1826.
(4) Evan Shelby bom in 1754 in Maryland, was killed
by IniKans, Janoiary 15, 1793. He married his first cousin,
daAherine Shelby, daughier of his uncle, John Shelby.
(5) Moses Shelby, marred Elizabeth Neil.
(6) James Shelby, killed by Indians in Lincoln County,
Kentucky, in 1786.
(7) Catherine Shelby married Captain James A.
Thompson, of Washington Coun%, Virginia. >
(8) Saraih Sheilby, married Eprtiraim McDowell.
(9) RacheH Shelby, marrieni Michael Leggett.
309
Digitized by VjOOQIC
NOTABLE SOUTHERN FAMILIES
{2) John Shelby
JnJni Slu*Iby married Elizabeth Pile.
(3) Isaac Shelby
Lsaac Shelby, of Maryland, born 1750, died 1820,
married Susanna HaH, 1783 (bom 1763, died 1826).
Isaac Shelby was «born in Hagerstouii, Maryland, De-
(>('inlf:r 11th, 1750. At the age of twenty he was elected
di'puty shtTilT of Fred'erick (]oimty, Maryland, but moved in
1771 to yiw present site of Bristol, Tennessee.
His first essay at arms was 'as 'Lieutenant in a Company
commanded' by «his fat'her in the Batltle at the moufii of
Kehnawa, on the Ohio River. He t3am«e South and settled in
'^'ashin.g^;4>n County. When the line was survejned* between
North (Carolina and Virginia, it placed'him in Norlh Carolina,
whicr^h eii^uanstance indfuced Gov. CJaswell to appoint him
Ctilonel of Militlia of Sullivan County (afterward Tennes-
soiO. He served as a mcenber of ttie North Carolina House
,/f fiOinmons, th'en moved' to Kentucky and was a member
of llie Oonstitivlioiial Qiuveii' ion in that stale andafferw-ards.
was cli'cli'd first (lovernor of Kentucky. He gave the signal
fii'r Ihe attack on Ferguson at King's Mountain and was one
^f till.* heroes of tthal celebrated balile. In 1782 he returned li)
I^ionsville, Kentucky, anJ m«arried in 1783, Susanna Hart.
Was e-lected member of the Convention in Kentuclq^ to oh-
tajiii separation froan Virginia. In «!he War of 1812 he com-
fnanded Iwvlve Kenhicky regiments in the Battle of the
Tluitnies. Diod In Lincoln County, July 18th, 1826.
Tlie children of Gov. Isaac Shelby and Susannaii \ihr\.
Shelby were:
1 James, married Mary Pindell.
2 Sarah, anarried Ephraim McDowell.
3 Kvan, married Nancy Warren.
4 Thomas Hart, married first, Mary McDowell; second,
Mary Bullock.
5 Susannah.
6 Nancy, married Samuel K. Nelson.
7 Isaac, married' Maria Warren.
8 John, died uimiarried.
9 ly'titia, married Col. Ohiarles Stewart Todd.
10 (Catherine, died young.
a Alfred, married Virginia Hart.
A long and) distinguished line comes through thes*
<?hildreii of Governor Isaac Shelbv and Susannah Hart
fehelby.
310
Digitized by
Google
SHKLBY
4 Evoji Shelbtj
Evaii Shelby, sou of Evan Shelby and LtMtia Ooxe
Shelby was a fam-ous 9oI<Iier like his fWIJier; serred with
him in Ghickamauga campaign in 1779 JanA took con-
spicuous part in the Battle of King's Mountain at which he
"w<as Major o^ his brother Isaac's regimen«t. When Gov.
Isaac Shelby cajne to Oumberlan-d as Commissioner of
bounty lands and pre-emptions in 1783, this Evan came
with 'him and seP'ded' in West Fork of Red River, some dis-
tance to the \\'est of Glarkesville, Tennessee. As he w^s re-
luming on Ihe IStti of January, 1793, from the Falls of the
Ohio, in a large canoe laden with salt and otfliej* saipi)lies,
he was fired upon and killed by a party of Indians near ihe
mouth of Gassey's Creek, in Trigg County, Kentucky. His
gnn, sword and other property were taken by the Indians.
He married his first cousin, Ca/l'herine Sheltry, and they had
only two childlren, Isaac and Priscilla, who married Mr.
Jeflries.
(Another autho'rily gives the ^iwo children as Priscilla
and Eleanor, the lal'.'er married to William Oal(^\^•eH,
juniot*).
AKev he was killed lilhese children were reared by Maj.
Smilh in the Fort. A monument is erected to Evan Shelby at
Knoxville, Tenn. There is "a tradition in t'he family that he
and his wife separated. Priscilla Shelby married in Tennes-
see, James Jeffries, and went to Mississippi, a widow xAitfi
several chi'ld'rv^n, as diid her bnother, Is«iac. A granddaughter
of Mrs. Jeffries, Mrs. Priscilla Metealf, wh^ Tived with her
grandmother, is still living, aged- 87, at Metealf, Mssissippi.
The descendants of Ihis brother and sister live in Missis-
sippi.
Th>:* 'honor of receiving the Sword^ from DePeysler at the
end Kit th<^ Battle of King's Moaui)!ain is clainxHt for this
Evan Shelby.
5 Moses Shelby
Moses Shelby, son of Brig.-Gen. Evan Siielby inherite<l
aiso the military and patriolic spirit of his father. He
served also with him in the Ghickamauga campaign in 1779
afid wTas waunded at King's Mountain, for Gov. Isaac
Shelby, himself, says so in a le»titer (naw in print), to John
J. CriitendiMi, stating t'hat Moses lay near King's Mountain
three months recovering from a wound in the thigh. He
was a (^a|)tain in the regiment commanded by Isaac Shelby,
311
Digitized by VjOOQIC
NOTABLE SOUTHERN FAMILIES
at King's Mountain ; was Ihe trusfied m<^senger b( »wef*n his
bi-oHher Isaac and Oal. CJanipbell, Iwx) of (h<? Ipad^rs in the
caanpaign against Gol. Ferguson. He moved frcxm'(ilapkes-
Ville to New Madrid, Missouri, whore he died, Septeniher 17,
1828. Authentic 'records seem to credit hdm wiBh two wives.
One was Miss Reiifro, and another recotxi states he married
EHzabeth Neal, who was born April 1, 1763, and died Sep-
tember 19, 1897.
6 James Shelby
Jaimes Shielby, son of Brig.-Gen. Shelby conmranded a
cofmpany during the whole of Gol. Clhrislaan's campaign in
1776; was a Captain with Gen. George Clark, and
was killed by the Indiums in Lincoln Cmmfy, Kentucky, in
1786.
9 Rachel Shelby
Redhel Sh<4by, daughter of Evan Sh(»lby and Lutila (/»xe,
mlarried Michael Leggett. Their ehildriMi were:
1 Rachel Leggett, who married Thomas McCrory. They
had, Sally McQrory, married Thomas Hller, and (>lmr!e«
S. McGrorj% married Martha I>ouglas Caldwell.
Eleanor Shelby
Eleanor Shelby was m»arried in Mecklenburg, North
Carolina, to John Polk, brother of Captain Charles Polk
(who also married an Eleanor Shelby, daughter of
Thomas Shelby, son of Evan Dhai Shelby). John Polk
was a Captain diiring the Revolution and in his late years
moved to Tennessee, A\''here he died. It is thought that his
wife died also in Tennessee. She was given land in South-
west Virginia as a daughter of General Evan Shelby. As her
name is not given in the list of General Shelby's children
iyy his first wifedt is probable that she is the daughter, by
the second marriage to Isabella EllioHtt. Her children were:
(1) Gh^arles Polk, married Margaret Baxter. Charles
Polk served in the Revolution and was called "Civil Charlie"
Polk. Had issue: John; Jennie; Andrew; William;
Cftiarles; Cynthia; Isaac; Alfred. He died in San Augusi!iae
Ocninty, Texas, in 1846-47. Born January 18411, 1760.
(2) Taylor Polk, married Jency Walker; had issue:
Benjamin; Taylor; James; Cumberland; William Walker;
Alfred; Warnell. Taylor Polk emigrated to Arkansas.
(3) .
(4) John A. Polk, born in Charkilte, North Carolina., 1762,
312
Digitized by
Google
SHELBY
<3ed in Leon Ciounty, Texas, 1849; married Elizabeth Old-
Bon about 1789. He was in tihe Revolution undter his
fiainbep. Had issue ; feenjamin D. A. ; Nlancy ; Evan ; Robert;
EBzabebh; John (Jackie) ; Armsteadi; all born in Tennessee.
The son Evan Shelby Polk left son Judge John Polk, wbo
had a daughter Jane, who married Larvy. Evan
i^ielby Polk also had a son named Oharies Polk, who dlled
in Madison Oourtty, Arkansas, in 1919, leaving a son, Elmer
Polk.
Ill THOMAS SHELBY
Thomas Shelby, so»n of Evan Dhoi Shelby and Catherine
Davies Shelby, settled on Oaldwell's Greek in the Eastern
part of Mecklenburg County, North Oarolina, now evidently
OabaiTus <;aunfy, in 1760. He died lat the beg'inning ot the
Revolution and teft fo»ur sons, one was named Thomas
Shelby, and was a private in Captain Oharies Polk's Com-
pany, in 1776. His c'hildren were:
(1) Jacob Shelby, untraced; lived in Union County,
North Carolina from 1787 to 1790; was in the first United
States census from PayePlle distirict, Anson County, North
CaroKna.
(2) Thomas Shelby, married . United States
census for 1790 from Fayette dlistriot, Anson County, North
Clwolinn, aboiil 1785. She was left a widow in 1829
Cfcarles Polk, junior, bom in Mecklenburg County, North
Carolina. Only kniovvii issue: Eleanor Shelby, married
and emigrated to (now) Douglas County, Georgia, in 1835
with "her four children. Died in 1852 in Campbell (now
Doi^las) County, Georgia; hunied in lihe Watson grave
yard.
(3) A son unknown.
wi) A sofi unknown.
V JOHN SHELBY
John Shelby, son of Evan Dhiu Shelby and) Catherine
Davis Shdby, served with »his brother, Brig.-Gen. Shelby, at
the Baltle of King's Mountain. He and Louisa Looney
Shelby had issue: (1) John Shelby, junior, married Eliza-
beth Brigham; (2) Davi^il Shelby born about 1763 in Vir-
ginia, marri(Hl Sa^raih Bledsoe; (3) Evan Shelby; (4) Thomas
aielby; (5) Isaac Shelby; (6) Louisa Shelby, married Wil-
liam McCrab; (7) Catherine SheJby, married Evan Shelby
III; her cousin.
313
Digitized by VjOOQIC
NOTABLE SOUTHERN FAMILIES
David Shelby
David Shelby, son of John Shelby and Louisa Loo-ney^
was born about 1768 in Virginia. He w«as the ancestor of a
fxtfnily which has been prominent in America and England..
David Shelby was also a King's Motmtain hero though he
was only a lad of seventeen. He served in Isaac Shelby's^
Regiment. He moved to Summer Ctounty, Tennessee, and
was Clerk of the Ck)urt un):Sl bis death in 1822.
He married Sarah Bledsoe, diaugMer of Anthony Bledsoe.
Gei/rge Bledsoe was the first of frhe Bhxlsoe line traced
in America. He lived in Northumbedand Oounty, Virginia.
His will was probated there July 23, 1704. The only child
on record was Abraham Bledsoe, who after marrjing settled
in that part of Orange Gounly which was later embraced in
Culpepper County. Among his childk^en was Anihony Bled-
soe, born in (then) Orange County, Virginia, 1733, married
about 1760 to Mary Ramsey, of Augusta County, who was
feorn in 1734. Col. Bledsoe was killed by the Indians at
Bledsoe's Greek, Sumner Oounty, Tenn., on July 20, 178S.
His widow died in Sumner County in 1808. Their children
were, Abraham, born in Virginia about 1762; Thomas.
Sarah, Anthony, junior, Isaac, Henry Ramsey, Radhel^
Polly, born in Virginia 1780; Rdsy, Pinidence and Susan.
Sarah Bledsoe was born in Virginia in 1763, canie to
Sumner Oounily, Tennessee, in 1781, the san>e year she mar-
ried David Shelby, and died March 11, 1852. They had
(issue :
1 John Shelby, born May 24, 1785.
2 Anthony Bledsoe Shelby, bom Jan. 15, 1789.
3 Philip Davies Shelby, born March 7, 1791, died May
27 1799.
' 4 Priscilla Shelby, born March 8, 1793.
5 LucintJa Shdby. born March 24, 1795.
6 James Shelbv, born July 13, 1797; diied Aug. 28,
1797.
7 Nellie Shelby, born Jan. 14, 1799.
8 David Davles Shelbv, born July 15, 1801, died Aug.
2, 1805.
9 Orville Shelbv. born Jan. 21. 1803.
10 Sarah Bledsoe »hel by, born Jan. 21, 1806.
11 Albert Shelby, born May 25, 1808.
1 John Sheliby, soh of David and Sarah (Bledsoe)
Shelby was the firsit while child to be born in what is now
Sumner Oounty, Tennessee, on May 24, 1785. He receivtnl
314
Digitized by
Google
SHKLBV
a tibcral ^^hio^ilion, lluii weni !o Philad<*lphia, where he
elufJiiHl luetliciiit* aiid where he married Anna Maria Min-
oick. After his I'e'tiiini to Tenne^st^e, he located on a large
tract of land on the east sidi* of the Onmbei^land River.
H«* was the fonnder of Shel'by Medical Collt^ge,
afterwards merged inl»» [hv nuMlical dejmrlnic'nt of il'he Uni-
versify t)f Nashville. He was the i>rifn'C mover in the
company, which l>uilt the first suspension bridge at Nash-
ville, He was one of the founders of St. Ann's Episcopal
Ohurch. I't was for him that SheJhy avenue was so nam^A
He was a warm personal friend of'Sam Houston and other
men of prominence of his day. His residence stood near
the centre of Woodland street, directly in front of the
present resicHence of Hon. A. V. Goodpasture. Had children:
Anna Shelby.
Priscilla Shelby.
/. Anna or Ann Shelby
Ann Shelby (in one place name given Anna, on other
Ann), daughler o'f \>i\ John and Anna Maria (Minnick) '
Shelby. Married Washington Bari^ow, w^ho was born in
Davidson County, Tenness(.M», Oct. 5, 1817. He was a lawyer-
by profession, and a man of affairs. He was 'lihe first
Pn»sid<»nt of the Nashville Gas (Company. He was Minister
(o Portugal from 1841 to 1844 and a representative in Con-
gress from 1847 to 1849. Was for a time editor of the Nash-
ville Banner. Was Slate Senator in 1860 and 1861. Was
id^uilifioi wifh the Confederacy during the War Hetw.en
Che Slates. Was arrested by order of Andrew Johnson but
soon afterwards was released by order of the l^N^sid-'nl.
Died in St. Louis, Oct. 19, 1866. Had children:
Jo'hn Shelby ^rrow.
A daughter, who died young.
Jo/hn Shel'by Barrow, son of Washington and Ann
(Shelby) Barrow, married Miss Margaret Armstrong. Had
children :
A daughler, Who die»d young.
John Shelby Barrow, junior.
John Shelby Barrow, junior, son of John and Margaret
(Armstrong) Batrmv, married a daughter of Col. Hal Clai-
borne, of Nashville. They n»side in New York. Their chil-
dren:
JoJin Shelby Barrow, Third.
Washington Barrow.
Ann Barrow.
Clayton Barrow.
315
Digitized by VjOOQIC
NOTABLE SOUTHERN FAMILIES
Priscilla Shclbf/s Descendants
Priseilla Sh: Iby, daughter of I>r. John and Anna Maria
(Miiinick) Shelby. Married David Williaans of West Ten-
n^ssre. Had children:
John Shelby Williams.
Joseph Minnick Williams.
Anna Minniek Williaims.
1 Johu Shelby Williams and his Descendants
(1) J()hn Shelby Williams, son of David and Priscilla
(Shelby) Williaaiis, married Mattie Sevier, daughler of
Hon. Ambrose H. Sevier, formerly a Senator from Arkansas.
Havl children:
David Shelby Williaims.
Jnlielfe Sevier Williams; died young.
Maude Johnson Williams.
Anna Fassman Williams.
Ambrose Sevier Williams.
David Shrlby \\'illiams, son of John Shelby and Mattie
(S<*vier) Williams, m«iirried first, May Lawson McGhee, of
Ku'oxville. daug-hter of Col. Charles McGhee.
Maude Williams, diaugfliter of John Shelby and Mattio
(Sevier) Williiuus married Robert P. Bonnie, of Louisville^
Kenlucky. Have children:
Shelby \\'illiams Bonnie.
Mattie Sevier Bonnie.
Robert P. Bonnie.
Anna Fassman Williams, daughter of John Shelby and
Mattie (Sevier i Williams, married Wentworth P. Johnson
of Norfolk, Virginia. Ohildren:
^^>nC^vorth P. Johnson, junior.
Shelby \\illiams Johnson (a daughter).
Three children died in infancy.
(2) Joseph Minnick Williams
Joseph Minnick \^*illiams, son of David and Priscilla
(Shelby) Wllliains, married Nov. 13th, 1860, Kmily D.
Polk, daughter of General Lucius Polk, of Maury C«/unty,
Tennessee. She was born March 29th, 1837. Had ohildren:
1 Henry Yeatman Williams, born Hamilton Place,
Nashville, March 29th, 1803: married Louise Pitcher, March
8(h, 1894. Residence, San Antonio, Texas.
2 J. Minnick Williams, junior, unmarriad; born
February 8th, 1866.
316
Digitized by
Google
SHELBY
(3) Lucius Polk Williams, unmarried; born Niovembep
1867.
4 Nannie M. Williams, born July 1870, died April 9Mi,
1890.
5 Eliza Polk Williams, born April 1872, died July 3rd,
1891.
6 Priscilla Shelby Williams, born at Ashwood, Ten-
nessee, January 4th, 1878; mairried George S. Briggs, March
7<lh, 1901. Had issue:
George Shelby Briggs, born March 7th, 1902, at Norfolk,
Virginia.
(3) Anna Minnick Williamx
Annie Minnick Williams, daughter of Uavid and Pris-
illa (Shelby) Williaftis, married Frank Fasaman, O'f New
Orleans. Had children:
Maria Shelby Fassman, married Mr. Brook, has one
child.
Anna Minnick Fassman, married Rev. J. G. Shackelford;
has one child'.
Anthony Bledsoe Shelby
Aniihony Bledsoe Shelby, son of David and Saraih (Bled^^
soe) Sh'elby, was born in Sumner County, Jan. 15, 1789
He maiTied Marian Winchester, daughter of Steph'en Win-
chester. He studied law, and after practicing at Gallatin
for some time, removed <o Texas anxJ assisted in gaining
indiependence tor that state. He was one of the Justices
of the Supreme Cooirt of the Republic of Texas, and was
prominent in other ways. Later he removed to Mississippi
and settled a'tl Brandon where he died about 1855. His
ohildiren were:
Sallie Shel'by, born in Sumner County, May 10, 1812.
David Shelby, born Sumner Oooanty, May 7, 1814.
Marian Jane Shel'by, born July 31, 1816; died Sept. 6,
18*7,
Priscilla Kate Shelby, born July 15, 1818.
Annie W. Shelby, born July 10, 1820; died Aug. 27,
1821.
Julia Winchester Shelby, born July 15, 1822.
Stephen Winchester Shelby, born July 22, 1824; died
July 15, 1828.
Winchester Bledsoe Shelby, born Jan. 18, 1827.
Lucinda Henderson Shelby, born Dec. 31, 1829.
Mariah P. Shelby, born Nov. 10, 1831.
317
Digitized by VjOOQIC
NOTABLE SOUTHERN FAMILIES
Bennett Hendtn'sun Slielby, born March 24, 1834
Anbonetie Marian Shelby, born Nov. 16, 1834, died yomi;?
Nelson Shelby, died in 1838. ' » J »•
Sallie Shelby and Her Descendants
(1) Sallie Shelby, daughter of Judge Anthony Bio*
soe and Marian (Winchester) Shflbv, be rn in Sumner
County, May 10, 181'^ iiiarried Dr. Miles Seld<»n \\atkins,
of Mississippi. Had children:
Selden Watkins.
L*ugh Watkins.
Marian Shelby Watkins.
Ei^skin Watkins.
Nettie Shelby Watkins.
Fearn Watkins. No infonnation.
Leigh Walkins, son of Dr. Miles Selden ' and Sallie
(Shelby) Watkins, marrie(f Willie Kearney, of Madison
County, Mississippi. Had children:
Mary Leigh Watkins.
Leigh Watkins.
Mary L(»igh Watkins, daughter of Lngh and Willio
(Kearney) Walkins, married Wm. H. McCulloch, of
Ferguson, Missouri. Hat! childr(»n.
Erskin Watkins McCulloch.
' Eizabelh Zant* McK^idloch.
\\'illiam H. McChiUoch, junior.
Marian Shelby \\'atkins, daughter of Dr. Miles Seldon
and Sally (Shelby) Watkins, married William Ewing Ross,
of Madison (](huiI\\ Mississippi. Had children:
\\'iHie B. Ross!
Marian Shelbv Ross.
Sally Shelby Ross.
\\'n}kins Ross.
James B. Ross.
Willii- B. R( ss. son of Wm. Ewing and Marian (Walkirts)
Ross. manM'd Lillii' Pra'ros. of Jackson, Miseissijypi. Hav#
child:
Willie B. Ross.
\\'illiM B. Ross, sdu of Wm. Ewing and Marian (\\'atkins)
(Sh. Iby \\'atkins. married Alic<» P(»trie, of Jackson, Mis-
sissip|)i. \\'h(Te Ihey ncAV resiuli.\ Had childnMi:
Rdsa Farrar Walkins.
Marian Shelby Wa'lldns.
Erskin \\'atkius, junior.
H(Tb( rl Pr'lri<' Walkins.
'MS
Digitized by
Google
SHEL&Y
Alice Petrie Watkins.
An infaiil who dli^d young.
Rose Farrar Walkins, daughter of Erskin and Alice
(P(<rie) Walkins, married Calvin Wells, junior, a lawyer
•of Jackson, Mississippi. One child:
Alice Petrie Wells.
Nellie Sheby Watkins, daugthler of Dr. Miles Seldon and
Sally (ShHby) Watkins. UncniaTTlod. Resides in Jackson,
Mississj>pi.
(2) David Shelby and His Descendants
David Shelby, son of Anthony Bledsoe and Marion
, tWinch<ester) Shelby, was bom at Gallatin, May 7, 1814;
married Mary T. Boilldin, Jan 13, 1837. Had childlren :
Anthony Davies Douldin Shelby, born Oct. 10, 1845.
David D. Shelby, born Oct. 24, 1847; married Eason
Davis in Hnntsville, Alabama, Augu^b 8th, 1872; no issue.
Maria Bledsoe Shelby.
Marian Winchester Shelby; no information.
Yancy Howard Shelby; no information.
David Shelby, son of David endl Mary T. (Bouldin)
Shelby, was born Oct. 24, 1847; married Aug. 8, 1872, Annie
Easton Davis. In 1882-86 he served in the Alal>ama iSenate,
was appointed) Judge of the United States Court, Fifth
Oii*ou?l:, 1890. Resides in Huntsville, Alabama. No children.
Maria Bledsoe Shelby
Maria Bledsoe Shelby, daughter of David and Mary T.
(Bo-uldin) Shelby, married May 14, 1871, Sam ueL Pleasants.
Had children:
Nellie S. Pleasants, born May 2, 1872.
Marian Shelby Pleasants, born in March, 1874.
Manan Shelby Pleasants
Marian Shelby Pleasants, daughter of Samiiel and
Maria Blndteoe (Shelby) Pleasants was born in March 1874.
Married Rev. Oscar Haywood, Aug. 1896; died in 1898; no
issue.
Priscilla Kate Shelby and Her Descendants
Priscilla Kate Shelby, daug^hter of Judge Anihony Bled-
50,' and Marian (Winchester) Shelby, was born in Sunun^r
(ioun'y, July 15, 1818; niarriedi J. (], P. Hammond, of Mis-
sissippi. Had children:
Eli Shelby Hammond.
F. McLaren Hammond.
Priscilla Hammond.
319
Digitized by
Google
NOTABLE SOUTHERN FAMIUES
Eli Shelby Hammond
Eli Shelby Hammond, son of J. C. P. and Priscllla Kale
(Shelby) Htaimanond, was born at Brandon, Mississippi,
April 21, 1838. Served in ttie Confederate army, then
studied law and practiced until 1878, when he was ap-
pointed United States District Judge for Wes* Tennessee,
and served to his death, Dec. 17, 1904. He married/ Jan. 13,
1864, Fannie Davis. Had children :
I Patty Hanunond.
II Orlando D. Hammond.
I Patty Hammond, daughter of Judfee Eli Shelby and
Fannie (Davis) Haimmond, was bom in Riipley, Mississippi,
June 6, 1868. Married Dr. George W. Jarman, son of Prof.
George W. Jarman, who was for meny years President of
<ihe S. W. B. University at Jackson, Tennessee. Residence,
No. 54 W. 76{h St., New York. Have children :
George Wallace Jarman.
Shelby Hammond Jarman.
Mart'ha Shelby Jarman,
F. McLaren Hammond and Descendants
F. McLaren Hammond, son of J. C. P. and Priscilla Kate
(Shelby) Ha'mn>ond niarriid' Mary Mayes. Had children:
Cora Hammond.
Ferdinawd' McLaren Hamanond.
Mary Hammond.
Harry Hammond.
Oora Hammond, daughter of McLaren and Mary
(Mayes) Hanmi-ond, married W(^ley Owen. Residence in
Texas. Has children. No information.
FenDinand McLaren Hammond, son of Mcl^ren and
Mary (Mayes) Hammond, married and has children. No
ill format ion.
Mary Hammond, daughter of McLaren and Mary
<Mayes) Ham^mond, married and has c^hild!ren. No in-
formation.
Harry Hammond, son f McLaren and Mary (Mavf^l
Hannuond, married and has children. No informaliun. *
Priscilla Hammond
Priscilla Shelby Hammond, daughter of J. C. P. and
Priscilla Kate (Shelby) Hammond, married J. M. Scruggs of
Byhalia, Mississippi, Oct. 19, 1864. Had children:
Frances Lynn Scruggs.
James Merriwe'Iher Scruggs.
320
Digitized by VjOOQIC
SHELBY
^K ^r^fif ^^'''^ Smiggs; dtogh'ter of J. M. and PrisciUa
^hemy (Haminond) Scruggs was bom at Jackson, Tennes-
^, July 25, 1865. Married J. Hancock Robinson, in Rally
Spnngs Mississippi, August 24, 1886. They reside in Wash-
mgton, D. C. Have one dhild :
1888^^^^^ Goldbborough Robinson, dauglnter, born July 8,
e*. J?«^^f Merriwether Scruggs, son of J. M. and Priscilla
Shelby (Haramond) Scruggs, married Lillie Whitney of
Memphis, where tiiey have a h-ome. Have children •
Whitney Scruggs, daughter.
J'ames Merriwether Scmggs, jiunior.
Nolan Fountaine Scruggs.
Julia Winchester Shelby, daughter of Judg^ Antlhonv
Hledsoe and Marian (Winchester) Shelby, was bom alt Gal-
IWin, July 15, 1822. Married Mr. Ware, a lawyer, of Jack-
son, Mississippi. Had' children:
Winchester Bledsoe Ware. Died young.
Winchester Bledsoe Shelby, son of Judge Anthony Bled-
soe and Marian (Winchester) S'helby, was born at Dixon
Springs, Tennessee, Jan. 18, 1827. He served in the Con-
federate Awny, with the rank of Oolonel. Married Margaret
Alexander. Had children :
Bledsoe Alexander Shelby, merchant, St. Louis, Mis-
souri; no information.
William H. Shelby, merchant, St. Louis; no information,
Edwin Shelby, insurance agent. New Orleans; no in-
formation.
David Shelby, lawyer in Okla'homa; no information.
Had daughters also:
Priscilla Shelby
(4) Priscilla Shelby, daughter of David and Sarah
(Bledboe) Shelby was born in Siumner County. Married
Henry L. Douglass, a native of Sumner County. He was a
meroh-ant of Vicksfburg, Mississippi, where he »died in 1854.
Their daughter was :
Priscilla Douglass.
After llhe death of Ms wife, Priscilla Shelby, Henry
L. Douglass married Miss Alcorn, sister of Governor Alcorn,
of Mississippi. After her death he married Mrs. Jane
Crabb, motiher of Henry Greibb of Sonora fame. Oolonel
Douglass was one of the largest merchants in Vicksbui^
and was owner of the first cotton compress in Mississippi.
Priscilla Douglass, daughter of Henry L. -and Priscilla
321
Digitized by VjOOQIC
NOTABLE SOUTHERN FAMILIES
(Shelby) Douglass, marriod Dr..Rol>f»rl C. K. Maptin,who
was bom in Nashville, Aug. 9, 1808. After receiving a
classical education he graduafed froan Franklin Medical
College, Philadelphia, wi'lh distinguished honors, then suc-
cessfully ppa<yi'iced medicine for approximately forty years,
winning eoninence in his profession, and was notod for
his philanthropy.
He died in NashvWle, Feb, 9, 1872. Had children :
Bet tie Martin.
Mary Shelby Martin. Never miarried.
Alice Martin.
Henry Douglass Martin.
Player Martin. Never married.
Robert G. K. Mai^in, junior.
Maria Martin.
Shelby Martin. Nev(T marrif^d.
lieftie Mnrtiu
Betlio Martin, daughtfT of Rnl)ert 0. K. and Priscilla
(Douglass) Martin, njarrie-rl W. ('. Butterfield. Had chl-
dren:
William Butterfield; unimaiTi(Hl.
Rohrrt Butterfield.
Nellie Butterfield; unmarried; resides at Liltl;* Rock,
Arkansas.
Robert M. Bu'ttivfield, son of W. 0. and Bf^ttie (MaKin)
Butterfield, married Miss Phones of Little Rock, Arkansas,
Y^here they reside. Ohildren :
Joseph Phones Butterfield.
Bet til* Martin BuMierfield.
2 Alice Martin, daugjhter of Robert C. K. and Priscilla
(Douglass) Martin, married \V. H. Hart. No issu(». After
•Ihe d<^ath of Mr. Hart she man»ied John Lammhan.
3 Henry Douglass Martin, son of Dr. Rol>er'! V., K. and
Priscilla (Douglass) Martin, married Lizzie Nichols. No
issue.
4 Robert 0. K. Martin, son of Rol>ert G. K. and Priscilla
(Douglass) Martin, married Sarah Shelby Anderson. Re-
sides in Nashville. Have one child:
Bet tie Martin, immarried.
5 Maria Martin, daughter of Dr. Robert C. K. and Pris-
cilla (Douglass) Martin, married \\\ (1. BulterfieM, who had
previously married her sister, Bi^^Jtie. Had ohildren :
Beilie Butterfiield; unmarried.
Duncan Butterfiield; unmarried; resides in Nashville.
3->2
Digitized by VjOOQIC
SHELBY
Eleanor or Nellie Shelby and Her Descendants
Nellie Shelby, daughter af David and Sarsch (Bled&oe)
Shelby was born in Sumnier Ctounly, at Spencer's Choice,
Jan. 14, 1799. She married Gen. Robert Desha, son of
Robert Desha. Gen. Desha's mother was, before her mar-
riage, Eleanor Wheeler, who was a daughter of Joseph
Wheeler, a Captain in 'Ihe Revolutionary War. He served
as a Captain and a Brigadier-Major in the War of 1812. He
was a representative in Congress from Tennessee from 1827
to 1831. He was for some time a mercihant in Gallatin and
later removed to Mobile, Alabama, where he conducted a
flourishing (business until his death, Feb. 8, 1849. Their
childlren were:
Caroline Desha.
Phoebe Ann Desha.
Julia Desha.
I Caroline Desha, daughter of General Robert and
Nellie (Shelby) Desha, marred first, Robert Barney; second,
Lloyd AJbJtK)tl. No. information.
II Phoebe Ann Desha, daughter of Gen. Robert and
Nellie (Shielby) Dt^ha, married firs*. Robert Barney; second,
Mobile, Alabama. Had children:
(1) Alva Erskin Smith
Alva Erskin Smith, daughter of Dr. Murray Forbes and
Phoebe (Desha) Smi^ilh, was born in Mobile, Alabama. Mar-
ried first, William K. Vandierbilt of New York; second.
Oliver H. P. Belmonf, who was born in New York, Nov. 12.
1858, son of Augustus Belmont; educated at the U. S. Naval
Ateademy, and served two years in the Navy; then resigned.
Was for some time a member of the banking firm of August
Belmont & Company. Elected 'lo the 57th Congress as a
Democral. Died in New York, June 8, 1898. She has chil-
dren :
Oonsuelo Vanderbilt, born in New York, March 2, 1877.
Wi'lliam Kissman Vanderbilt, born in New York, Oct. 26,
1878.
Harold Stirling Vanderbilt, born in New York, July 0,
1884. K
Consuelo Vandrbilt, daughter of \A'm. K. and Alva
Erskine (Smith) Vanderbilt, was born in New York, March
2, 1877. Married first, Nov. 6, 1895, Charles Richard John
Spencer Churchill, Duke of M-arlbrough. Has Children :
John William Churchill, Mar(]uis of Blanford.
Ivory Churchill (Lord).
3-^3 . .
Digitized by VjOOQIC
NOTABLE SOUTHERN FAMIUES
She re-'married' in 1921.
William Kissman Vanderbilt, juniar, son of Wm.. K,
and Alva Erskin (Smith) Vanderbilt was bora in New
York, Oct. 26, 1878. Married April 1900, Virginia Pair. Has
children:
Muriel Vanderbilt.
Oon»iielo VandlerbiH.
William Vanderbilt, Third, onarried Rachel Littleton.
2 Mary Virginia Smith, daughter of Dr. Murray Forbes
and Phoebe (Desha)) Smith, married first, Fernando
Yzanga; second, W. G. Tiffany, of New York.
3 Florence SmitJi, diaughler of Dr. Murray Forbes and
Phoebe (Desha) Smith married Gascon De Fontenilliat. Had
children: ,
Renee Fontenilliat.
(9) Orville Shelby and Descendants
Orville Shelby, son of David and Sarah (Bledsoe) Shelby
was bom in Sumner County, on January 21, 1803. He
married Caroline Winchester, daughter of Gen. James
Winchester and soon thereafter removed to Lexington,
Kentucky. His children were :
Joseph Orville Shelby.
Carrie Shelby.
Isaac Shelby.
/. Joseph Orville Shelby
GtMif^ml Joseph Orville Shelby, son of Orville and
Caroline (Wnchester) Shelby, was born at Lexington,
Kentucky, in 1831. Received a liberal education and engaged
in mercantile pursuits. Removed to Waverly, Missouri, in
1850, and commenced the manufacture of bale-d rope. Soon
afterwards the Kansas trouble broke out, and he returned
to Kentucky, where he organized a company for 'territorial
service. When quiet had been restored he returnd to his
rope faclor>\ At the breaking out of the War Between the
Slates he raised a company of cavalry and) entered the Con-
federate service with the rank of Captain. In 1862 he re-
cruiled a regiment, of which he was cfhosen Colonel, and
was given command of a brigade of wtiich his regiment
formed a part. In March 1864, he was commissioned a
Brigadier General, and later a Major General. Shelby's
Brigade was one of the most famous commands in the Con-
federate service. Gen. Shelby was a born leader of men.
Brave, daring, chivalrous, and knew noH) the meaning of
the wor J fear. He 'Was the idol of his men and was to the
Trans-Mississippi department wh/at Forre&H was to the East,
324
Digitized by VjOOQIC
SHELBY
I
No braver man than *01d Joe Shelby', ever drew a sword''.
In 1893 he was appointed United States Marshal by Presi-
dent Cleveland, and held the office until his death, February
13, 1897, at his home in Adri-an, Missouri.
Joseph Orville Shelby, married 1858, Betty Shelby; had
issue :
1 Orville Shelby ; Mved in Oklahoana.
2 Joseph Shelby; lived in Kansas City, Missouri.
II Carrie Shelby
Carrie Shelby, daughter of Orville and Caroline (Win-
chester) Shelby, married Henry Blood; had childreai:
Henry KockI; dead.
Lawton Blood ; No information.
May Blood.
Laura Blood.
Olga Blood; no infoCTnation.
Maud Blood.
May Blood, daughter af Henry and Carrie (Shelby)
Blood, married a Mr. Walsh. Resides in New York. No
information.
Laura Blood, daughter of Henry and Carrie (Shelby)
Blood, married a Mr. Walsh.
Maude Blood, daug4iler of Henry and Ca'rrie (Shelby)
Blood married Harold Sanderson, manager of «tihe White
Sfar Line of Steamships of Liverpool. He was lost at sea.
///. Isaac Shelby
Isaac Shelby, son of Orville and> 'Qaroline (Winchester)
Shelby, a younger brother of General Joseph 0. Shelby,,
was bom in Lexington, Kentucky. Removed to Missouri.
He served in the Confederate Aitmy as color-bearer in Gor-
don's Brigade, in the Trans-Mississippi department, and was
distinguished for his daring. No other infopmallion,
10 Sarah Bledsoe Shelby and Descendants
(10 Sarah Bledsoe Shelby, daughter of David and
Sarah (Bledsoe) She'lby, born in Sumner County, Jan. 21,
1806. Married Dr. Thwmas Fearn on Feb. 26, 1822. Died
May 22, 1842. Dr. Fearn was a son of Thomas Fearn and
was born in Pittsylvania County, Virginia, Nov. 15, 1789;
ilied Jan. 16, 1863. Her children were:
Mary Eleanor Fearn.
Sarah Fearn, married) Hon. William S. Barry, Columbus,
Mississippi ; both dead.
Kate Fearn.
Ada Fearn.
S?5
Digitized by VjOOQIC
NOTABLE SOUTHERN FAMILIES
Maria Fearn.
B4M*nice Fearn.
Lucy Lee Fearn.
/. Mary Fearn
Mary Foarn daughter of Dr. Thomas and Sarali
JJledsoe (Shelby) Fearn, married Gusfavus L. Mastin. Had
children :
Arabella Ma&tin; never married.
ThixnTas Mastin.
James Mastin.
Fronk Mastin; never married.
Sallie Shelby Mastin.
Gusftavus L. Mastui, junior.
1 Thomas Mastin,'i*on of Goistavis L. and Mary (Fearn)
Mastin, married Mary Irby Bale, diaughter of the late Sen-
ator Williani B. Ba'te, of Tennessee. Resides in Grand
View, Texas. Their children :
Bate 'Mastin.
Mary Eleanor Mastin,
Ju'lien Mastin.
Mary Eleanor Mastin, daughter of Thoimas and Mary
Irby (Bales) Mastin married John Stevens Douglass.
2 James Mastin, son of Gustavus L. and Mary (Fearn)
Mastin, married Mattie Tutwiler of Alabama. No issue.
3 Sallie Shelby Mas^Kn, daughter of Gu&tavus L. and
Mary (Fearne) Mastin married Eugene Bucknor. No. issue.
4 Gustavus L. Mastin, junior, son f Gustavus L| and
Mair>' (Fearn) Mastin mairied Lu-cy Matthews. Had chil^
dren :
Jobn Mastin.
Sallie Shelby iMastin.
Clara Mastin.
Lucy Mastin.
Frank Mastin.
II Sarah Fearn
Sarah Fearn, daughter of Dr. Thomas and Sarah Bledsoe
(Shelby) Fearn, married Colonel William F. Barry. Had
clhil-dren :
William Shelby Barry.
William Shelby Barry, son of Colonel William F. and
Sarah (Fearn) Balry, married' first, Bernice Steel, a first
cousin. Had one cJhild:
WiHiain Shelby Barry, junior.
326
Digitized by
Google
SJIELBY
III Kate Fearn
Kale F^arn, daugWf^r of Dr. Thcrmas and Sarah Bled-
soe (S'helby) Fearn marrie<Jin 1848, Colonel Matthew Steele.
Had Ohi'ldren:
Thomas St^e.
Sallie Steele.
Eliza Steele; never nuarried.
George Steele; never married.
Robert Steele.
Bernice Steele.
Maililhew Steele.
Tracy Steele.
Katy W'ille Steele; never married.
Thomas Steele, son of Gol. Matthew and Kate (Fearne)
Steele, niarried Lovie Strode. Had chUdren:
Shelby Steele.
Kate Steele.
May Steele.
Sallie Sleele.
Stella Steele.
Bernice Steele.
Matthew Steele, junior.
Annie Steele.
2 Sallie Steele, daugWer of Gol. MaWhew and Kale
(Fearn) Steele married John Newman. Had one child:
Rioberl E. Newman.
3 Robert Steele, son of Gol. Mathew and Kate (Fearn)
Steele married Tillie Weaver. No issue.
4 Bernice Steele, diaughter of Gol. Matthew and Kate
(Fearn) St^^le married William Shelby Barry, her first
#ousin. Had one child:
William Shelby Barry, junior.
5 MatKlhew Forney Steele, joinior, son of Gal. Matthew
and Kate (Fearn) Steele is a Gaptain in the U. S. Army,
Sixth Regiment of Oavalry. Married Stella Folsom. I^o
issue.
6 Tracy Steele, son of Gol. Matthew and Kate (Fearn)
Steele married Gourtney Grutchfield. Have children:
Tracy Steele, junior.
William Steele.
327
Digitized by VjOOQIC
NOTABLE SOUTHERN FAMILIES
Second mapriage, JosQp-hine Holliques^h. Had one child :
Josephine Barry.
IV Ada Feam
Ada Fe«arn, dbugiiter of Dr. Thomas and Sarah Bledsoe
(Shelby) Fearn married first, Dr. George Steele; had
childreii :
Anna Steele.
Fearn Steele.
Marpied second, Judge Hook.
Anna Steele married Mr. Edgar. Had children:
Annie D. Eager.
Fearn F^ager; died young.
Fearn Steele, son of Dr. George and Ada (Fearn) Steele,
married Sadie . H^d one child! :
GeoTge Strele.
V Maria Feam
Maria Eliza Fearn, daugWer of Dr. I'^homas and Sarah
Bledsoe (Shelby) Parn, June 25, 1855 married Col. William
W. Gartii, of Huntsville Ala'bania, who ser\'ed on the stafl'
of Geii Ijongstreet iaiiiring the War Betwe^^n ihe States. He
was born in Morgan County, Alai>ama; pursued classical
studies a^l* Lagrange and at Emory and Henr>' College, then
stuHiied law a'! the University oif Virginia. Commenced
practice at Hiuntsville. Elected a representaJtive in Congress
in 1888, and sei*ved one term as a Demtocrat. Had children:
Winston F. Garth.
Winston F. Garlh, son of Col. William Willis and Maria
Eliza (Feam) Garth, married Lena Garth, a cousin. Had
children :
William Willis Garth, junior. ^
Alice D. Garth; unmarried; lives in Huntsville,
Alabama.
Maria Fearn Garth.
Horace Everett Garth.
William Willis Garth, junior, son of Winston Foam and
Lena Garth, married Lmiisa Dodsworth. Have one chiM:
Lena Garth.
VI Lucy Fearn
Lucy I-iiM* Fearn, daughter of Dr. Thomas and Sarah
Bledsoe (Shelby) Fearn, married George Miller; no issue.
VI MARY SHELBY
M«ry Sh(»^lby, daughter of Brig.-Gen. Sht^lby married
Adam Alexander of note in connection with the Mecklen-^
328
Digitized by
Google
SHELBY
burg lieclaration af Independence, and still furOher kno\^ii iii
NoT*th Carolina history for his military services during tbe
Revolutionary War. He was bom September 28, 1728, in
Pennsylvania, of Scotch-Iris:h parentage. They hex! issue :
(1) Evan Shelby Alexander, gradu«.te at Princeton 1787,
was a lawyer and a member of the Ninth Oongpess from
Salisbury District, North OaToKnia, in 1808-9, died in 1809
unmarried; (2) Isaac Alexander; (3) Charles Taylor Alex-
ander. (Three of the Taylor s-isters of Carlisle, Pennsyl-
vania, married Alexanders, aincestors of the North Carolina
Alexanders; another sister, Marg'eiret Taylor, married
William Polk, and this couple were the progenitors of the
Southern line of »lihe Polk family in North CaiPolina). (4)
Sanah Alexander; (5) Mary Alwander. The oldest married
CSaoain John Springs. There are many desoendiants of
Isaac and Charles Alexander, and the Springs living in that
section of North Carolina now.
Digitized by
Google
Digitized by
Google
VANCE
The ancestry of any family or person goes back in such
a multdplicity of lines it is hard in any case to trace
the predominate strain.
One may however, trace with fair degree of certainty
the origin and va-rious changes in t<he imme the family
bears.
Most interesWng to study in such a w^ay is the nam<*
Vance. In ancient Province, Iteux, in Normandy anJi Eng-
land, Vmix, De Vaux, De Vans, or its Latin form De Valli-
bus, we findlihat in Scotland it takes the spelling Vans (pro-
nounced Vanse), and in Ireland and Am<*rica we have it
spelled as pronounced, Vance.
It is one of the most ancient names whose his»tory has
been traced. Playfair in his Baronetage of Scotland says;
"The Vance family combines within itself the blood of some
of the most ancient names of European genealogy, the pres-
ent i^epresentatives being by paternal di^scenlt heirs male of
LordI Vaux, Vans or Vans of Direlton Gastle, East Lothian,
a noible race, numbered amongst the magnates
Scotia as early as 1244 and are indubitably descended from
the same general stem as the noble houses, niow extinct, of
Vaux of Gilliesland, Brevor and Harrowden in England,
all of Nonman descent at 'the tiime of the Conqueror".
Thoug'h not elevated to the peerage this 'family has been
Jrom the first of the rank of the first of the order of Barons,
holding their estates "in oapite'' by Royal Charter; con-
ferring on their possessors all the rights and important
privileges of free baronies, according to the most extensive
use of the word in Scottish law, "It has been the custom,*'
he continues^ "of genealogists back to 'Charlemagne." 1'his,
however, is impossible in this case as the family actually
deduce their paternal descent by the most authentic docu-
Digitized by VjOOQIC
NOTABLE SOUTHERN FAMILIES
ments Ij a period of still greater antiquity, their ancestors
holding them a \evy distinguished rank, their principal resi-
dence being the Castle of Baux, situated on an elevated rock
near 'llhe City of Aries, where the ruins may yet be seen.
There liave been many conjectures as to the rise of tho
family of the ancient Barons of Baux, but «the Norman
his'lorians (Who certainly must be considered the best au-
thorities of their Himies), are decidedly of the opinion that
they are a branch of the Visigothic ,Balti, a raice which
boasted having given a long line of monarchs to the V\''est^
ern Goths, with the formidable name of Alaric at their
head'.
This was in >tihe year 500 of the Ohristian Era, but the
first of particular record, is Rdlin, or Grorsallin de Baux,
settled at Ifeux in Provence 800. He nmrried Herrinbuck.
daughter and heiress of William, Sovereign of Count of
Orange and niece of Bertha, wife of Emperor Gharlemgne.
In 929 Berlranld de Baux of Ppovence, went 1o Normandy
by invitation of tihe Duke of Normamtj'. In 1096 Raoul de
\m\x of Normandy, bore the same arms as A'aus of the
house of Provence.
On Millie continent of Europe the de Vaux family have
been Dukes of Andrea, Princes of Joinville, Taranta and
Alta Mara, Sovereign Count of Orange and Provence and
Kings of Vienne and Arlis as we'll as Lords de Vaux of Nor-
mandy. Hubert de Vaux or de Vallibus, was the eldest son
of Harold, Lord de Vaux of Normandy, who went over with
William, the Conqueror, in 1066 and was as first lord of
Parliament for the Barony of Gilliesland.
This Hubert was ancestor of the Lords of Ruthvine, Ker,
and Home as well as ilhe Earls of Bothwell. AH of these
families bear the quartered arms of Vaux.
It is many centuries since the noble house of Vaux in
Ekigland became exitinof and the peerage remained in aiboy-
anoe until 1838, when it was revived in the person Qf George
Mostyn, Esq., heir male to Mary, sister of the last Lord
Vaux of Harrowden.
However, according to Playfair, Ihe male line was
carried by Johannis Vaux who setlled in Galloway, married
ail hein»®s and ihlaiupd the lands of Branbarroch in Scot-
land.
Barnbarrouch House, located in the Parish of Kirkimer,
near the town of Wigton, is said to be one of the most
beautiful in -.he country. The present owner, with whom
thp writer has corresponded, is Ja»mes Vans-Agnew, fwenty-
332
Digitized by
Google
VANCE
first laird of BarnbarrcK^h. He quarters the amis of Xans
wiWi tlhosi- of Agnew. All children except the oldest son hf^^^
the name Vans. On the stone above <he door of the house
the V«ns arms are cut in the stone with the diate 1433 and
initials J. V. & E. K. .
Rev. Jt>hn Vans, first of the name of Ireland, whose will
filed 1662, in the records of Dublin Oastle bears on its seal
<lhe arms of Vans of Barnbarroch, was a grandson of Sir
Patrick \ ans and Margare<J Kennedy, his wife, graiid-
daughter of King Robert III, of Scotland.
From this John Vans, \he Vance families of North
Ireland and America trace their descent.
Some ycvars ago M<r. Williaim Balbrinie, of Glasgow, at
the request of an older brother living in Melbourne, who
had been granted the right* to assume the name Balbirnie-
Vans, undertook to trace the history of the Irish branch of
*he Vance faanily.
He bad access to a faanily history drawn up by his
uncle, GkM>rge Washington Vance (born 1790, oied 1825),
and one written previous 1o 1825 by one of ^he lairds of
Barnbarroch. He visited the family in Scotland and Ireland
and was given inuch assistance by Sir Bemar^i Burke,
Ulster King at Arms, and other prominent genealogists.
The resiult of his labors, the Vance book published 1860,
contains, no doubf, all the authentic data in n^gard to the
family in Ireland up to th«at time.
The Vaji«ce faimily in America are practically all de-
scended from the Irish family of that name. I have been
endeavoring to connect up some of the family groups with
those Mr. liatbrinii* mentions as cuinTing to this county.
The account of George Washington Vance says ''a
daughter of John Vance (my grandfather) , 'married Andi^ew
Jackson, of Magherfelt, who emigrated to America and
there gave birth to Andrew Jackson, the general, late pivsi-
dent of 'Ihe United Stages, of w4iojn it is written he is the
bravest soldier and wisest statesman that ever ancient or
modern history recorded'.
**Andrew Vance, fourth son of John, also emigrated to
America and there became the founder of a family; one
of his* sons was an ofiicer in the Aimerican war and was
killed in action fighting under Washington. A descendent
of his was uH'inlx^ of Congress fr(m\ North (iirolina in
1824"'.
I give his statement in full: Mr. Vance, whose fathei*
was first cousin to Andrew Jackson, was named for Geroge
333
Digitized by VjOOQIC
NOTABLE SOUTHERN FAMILIES
Washington, ppol>a'bly on account of his father's inability
to carry thriigh his plan to come to America, and the family
were, no doubt, in correspandnce with relatives here. The
statement in regard to Jackson's mother's name is accepted
by O'Hart and (►ther authorities but for some reason Jtack-
sons biograjjlici^s here have never credited him with cmy
prominent ancestry, much being made of his rise from a
common family. His m«other's father was John Vance, son
of r^uncelo«l Vance, son of Rev. John Vans of Ireland''.
Aiinlher family {hat of Hugh of (lortwood 5, Th()mas 4,
Georgv 3. Patrick '2, R"V. John i, also has a record of several
members wlio oiime to America. Patrick, son of Hugh,
caru(» to America unmarried. This Patrick had a brother
also named Hug4i who had five sons, four of whom followed
their unclr to America. They wer<^ John, who located in
Baltimore and ha<ci two sons, Patrick who had two daugh-
ters, Thomas of lialtimore and Hugh, Who married a Miss
Gorscaddon, of Donegal, and emigrated to Pitts-burg.
The Scotch-Irish began coming to this country from
North Ireland early in seventeen hundred. They were urgent
to come 'lo avoid persecu'tion at home and large manors
were granted along the frontier to various persons who
agreed to bring a certain nmnber of settlers. James and
William Vance had grants in Beverly Manor in the Shenan-
doah Valley.
It seems well to put d«own for use of any one interested
a few of the Vance groups who were here early, even if the
connection between the groups is not clear.
The Virginia Vances came first to Lancaster and Chester
Counties in Pennsylvania and from these with William
Hoge, or Hogg, a relative of Andrew Vance, to form the first
selClement in th(* Shenandoah ^aUey. These Scotch Pres-
byterians were V'lhere i\s early as 173G.
I. James Vance who married in Ireland 1734, Mary
Gamble Glass naimes in his will, filed Frederick County,
Virginia, 1754. his brothers William and David, au'd/ sons
William and Samuel. One branch of the Ohio Vances
descend fiN>m this SanMiel.
II. Maj. William Vance (1718-88), was in Augusta
County. Virginia, 1742 and 1756 and 1758 was engaged in
the Indian wars with his brothers John and Patrick, M. D.
This Paftrick, according ito tlie family records of his descen-
d<(Mits, was dired'iy dvscended of Rev. John Vans.
Major William Vance with his son Joseph and hift
nephew John (son of John), moved to Washington County,
334
Digitized by
Google
VANCE
Pennsylvania, 1778. They were the founders of Vance's
Fort at Gross Greek, Pennsylvania, where miany of the name
were born. A full account of their descendants mey be
found in the County History on file with tShe Washington
Goainty Historical Association.
in. Oharles Vance was in Pigua, Pennsylvania, 1739.
His sons John, Alexander and Joseph located in Ohio. (See
Alexan'der Genealogy, Portifield Genealogy and Hayden's
History of Virginia).
I\'. David Vance of Frederick County, Virginia probably,
a grandson of Major William, left according to his will
filed 1768. the following children. David, married Sarah
Quimby (see On'iniby GenealogjO, Jdhn, Joseph Golvill,
Mary, Ann, (married Joseph Vance). Martha married Sol-
omon Vail and Jeanette married! Miles Wilson. Joseph
Golville born March 24, 1759, son of David, went to Ken-
tucky in 1788 later moved to Ohio. His sons were John
M., who located in Illinois, William, Wilson, Moses, and
Joseph who was one of the early Governors of the Slate
of Ohio (1836.)
ALEX FRANKLIN VANCE
Son of Joseph Golville Vance
Alexander Franklin Vance (of Urbana, Ohio), married
Mary Rebecca Ward' and had thirteen children among
whom were:
Joseph Golville Vance married Emily Patrick and had
two soivs. namely, Joseph MacAiilJiur Vance (anarried Grace
and had two sons, Josep^h Golville Vance, died in
infancy, and Dimcan MacArthur Vance), and Harry Vance
(nvarriod Augusta Reid and has no children).
2 John Gorwin Vance (living in Chattanooga) mar-
ried F^diilh Price and has two dteuugbters, Elizabeth (married
BuWeigh Annis and has a daug^hter, Vance Annis), and
Esther Vance (married Richard Renner and has no chil-
dren. .
3 Henrys Gal'diwell Vance, married and had
a son Marion, and a daughter Margaret.
4 Frank Vance married Mary Jamison. Their daughter,
Louise Vance, married Senator Oharles Brand.
5 F.lla Vance, unmarried, now living in Urbana, Ohio.
^^ Ool. Samuel Vance lived in Augusta Gounty, Vir-
ginia. His ehjklren were: Rachel married Hamilton,
i78(); 2 James married Marshall; Margai^et married Gocke-
335
Digitized by
Google
NOTABLE SOUTHERN FAMIUES
rill, Betsy, Sarah Palsy, BenjamTin nmrried Margaret Lind-
say, of Keritiucky, and James.
VL John (1736-1823), imamed Jane Black. He had
brothers David, Arthur, Samuel and Joseph C His children
were James, bom 1760, Jolhn 1762, Eliziabeth 1765, Andrew
1768, Samuel 1769, married Blackburn, Joseph 1772, Ester
1786, Ohristian 1778 and John 1783.
VIL Samuel Vance married in Ireland, Margaret
Laughlin. Ohildren: 1 Samiuel, born 1784, married Eliea-
beth Brown (a descendani of King Robert III). He died at
Glarkesville, Tennessee, 1823. Their children were Morgan,
William, Samuel, Elizabeth married Topp, and Margarei
man^ied Childress. 2 Robert, 3 John, 4 David (of North
QaTolina), 5 James, 6 EMzabeth, 7 Sarah and 8 Margaret
Abram married Alice Gale Arms^tirong.
VIII. Patrick and brother John, 'w'ho had large estates
along the Falling Spring near Ohambersburg, Pennsylvania.
The mansion house of these brothers still stands. They
wer^e dlireoi desctMidan^ls of Rev. John Vance. Patrick left n^
issue. John bad a son Jo»hn from whom George Vance
Johnson descends.
IV. Hugh \'<anee of Boston, born 1699, married Mary
Pemberton. Children: John, William married Clark,
Ebenezer and Samuel. '
X. Samuel Vance, whose farther born on ithe High Seas,
and lived in Baltimore County, Maryland, married Agnes (?)
of English Quaker stock. Samuel had faur brothers :
1 David, whose dhildren were Robert, Samuel, and daugh-
ters who married Clymr, Thompson and Rittenhaus; 2
Joseph, who lived in Pennsylvania; 3 William, 4 James,
5 Jonathan m'arried Baxter, 6 Betsy and Mary. Two broth-
ers, according to family traditions, sertWed in the **Garo-
linas." Samuel born Baltimore County, Maryland, 1762 and
married Oct. 14, 1798 at Bel Air, Maryland to Mary Ann
Waters, bom March 29, 1779 was 14 years old when the
Revolution started and served for a short time when about
17. His four broHlhers also served and his father erected an
arsenal and gave powder to the State of Maryland'. The
mother, however, remained loyal to Great Britain. Samuel
was ed\icated at University of Baltimore and also learned
the wheelwright trade. He traveled HbTough New York and
Lancaster Counties, Pennsylvania, buying horse hair, from
which selves were then madte. After marriage, however, he
followed teaching exclusively. He died March 1, 1843 at
Connersville, Ind.
336
Digitized by
Google
VANCE
The four children of Samuel and Mary Waters Vance
were, Elisha and Elijah, twins, born in Harnerd Oounty,
Maryland, 1801. Eli, born Feb. 5, 1810, Washington County^
Pennsylvania, died young. Eliza, born Jan. 21, 1813, <died
young.
Elijah Vance had 'tiwo daughters who left no issue. He
was a lawyer and pmminent in the early history of Ohio,
being a member of the first constructional convention, and
serving several times in the legislature,
Elisha, Iwin to Elijah, came down the Ohio to Cincin-
nati aboiii 1820 on a flat boat, wit»h Alexander Vance, a
distant relative, who \^^s a potter by trade and who located
near Cincinnati. Elisba lived in Butler County, Ohiio, and
Oonnersville, Indiana, where he died. He was a lawyer and
prominent! in politics. He married in Butler County, Ohio,
i820, Mary, daiighter of Samud andl Kath<'rine De Moss
Harper, bcirn in Virginia, 1776. Her grand parentis were
John Ue Moss (Dumas) and Martha (La Huff) De Moss and
Marsh (?) and Elizabeth Warren Harper. Elisha Vance
died July 5, 1864 and! his wife April 22, 1882. They had ten
cftiildren, namely:
1 Samuel Warren, bom Aug. 5, 1821, Warren County,
Ohio, "dlied Feb. 14, 1910; married in Connersville, Indiana,
July 1, 1868, AdeJaide Weaver Whittaker. Their children
were, Porliia, bom April 17, 1869, married Dec. 1, 1895, Wm.
C Hanson. Has one child, Warren, born Se^pt.l 0, 1897;
address. South Bend, Indiana; (2) Mary Harper, born Aug.
*, 1871, dirdi April 1873; (3) Charles Francis, born June 7,
1874, married Rachel GrilBn; (4) Coleridge Shelby, born
March 11, 1876, married Lon Klein, address, Brdgeporf,
Illinois; 5 Galen Abernathy, born Dec. 25, 1877; 6 Teresa,
born July 4, 1879, died July 22, 1882.
2 Benjamin FrankHn, born June 1882, married Rebecca
Fry. ChiKitren: Hatftie, Sarah, Lillie, Lucy, Ida and Samuel.
'3 Judigo Elijah Milton Vance, boim Butler County,
OhSo, Aug. 6, 1825, died in 9t' Louis, April 25, 1912. He was
a la-wyer and editor, prominent in Democratic politics. He
ioanT[>aigned with the father of Willaim J. Bryan, whom
often entertiained at Ms home. He stuflnci^ped the state of
Hlinois with Douglas against Lincoln. He married
first, Sawyer; second, at Janesville, Wisconsin, June
8, 1860, Mary Jane, d'aughter of Rev. Aurora Callender and
his wife Mary McMichael and granddaughler of Nathaniel
and Oliver Kellogg Callender. She w^as born in Ravenna,
Ohio, Nov. 16, 1833 and died in SeattHe, Feb. I, 1820. Their
337
Digitized by VjOOQIC
NOTABLE SOUTHERN FAMILIES
children were: Ed*v^iard Sawyer (by firs-t wife Saw-
yer), born Aug. 14, 1855; 2 Maud. Wrn April 1, 1860, died
Feb. 15, 1864.
3 Milton Oallender, born Nashville, July 13, 1863, mar-
ried at Osceola, Missouri May 14, 1895 to Frances Russell,
Children: Louis Whaby, born April 12, 1891 at Osceola, Mis-
souri, and Edward Milton, born Dec. 2, 1898, and died in
service Oct. 2, 1818..
4 Alice, born June 8, 1872 at Glin'ton, Missouri; mar-
ried St. Louis, Oct. 21, 1900, ^]d^vard Nelson Robinson, son
of (Jeorge WoodforJ and Cornelia Beckwith Robinson.
Children: Mary Ruth, born June 22, 1901 ai St. Louis;
Morton Jomrdan and Gi^or^e Nelson, twins, born St. Louis,
May 23, 1903; Margiarel Helen, born Feb. 27, 1907, St. LouiS.
5 Mary Harding Vance, born Nov. 5, 1875 at Clinton,
Missouri.
IV. Katherine IViuoss, born Connersville, Indiana,
Aug. 23, 1878, married 1851 iTrabor, One child,
Hairry, l>om Nov. 28, 1852.
V. Flora A., born Dec. 15, 1830, Connersville, Indiana,
married Sepil. 7, 1851 <o John Gregg. ChiWren: Horace,
and Mary married Horace Flora.
VI. Mary, born April 15, 1833; married Maj. Mc-
Ilevain who was was killed in War Between the States,
June. 1864. SQie died' 1867.
VII. Josephine, born Aug. 5, 1835; married Dec. 28, 1871
at Ml Vernon rUinois. to Hoskins. Children: 1
Mary Rebecca, born at Jackson, IVnnessee; married Rev.
James Hawkins. Their child^reir are Ruth and Dorothy.
Elisha Vance, born Dec. 1, 1874 at Kansas City, Kansas;
married to Leenie Price who died leaving children William
and Andrew. He married, sacond, Margaret Wright
VIII. Van Rowland, born FayeHie County, Indiana, June
4, 1838, dlied single at Columbus, Ohio, Sept. 14, 1906.
IX Robert Burns, born Oonnerssville, Indiana, Feb. 11,
1845, died single, Feb. 15, 1918.
X. Alice Hdbbard, born Oct. 20. 1842, at Connersville,
Indiana, died single Oct 28, 1908.
William Kirkjxitrick Vance
William Kirkpatrick Vance, son of Patrick 8. (Patrick
7, Hugh 6, Hugh 5, Thomas 4, George of Ran eel 3, Patrick 2,
Rev. Jhn Vans 1) was born March 2, 1780 at Lexington,
Virginia; mar*ried in Washington County, Tennessee,
Keziah, granddaugWier of Charles Robinson,* prominent in
338
Digitized by
Google
VANCE
early Tennessee history, ctaiughter of his son, Oh«arles Rob-
inson, j'unior. He died 1852 ^1 Kingspart, T-ennessee. His
children were ■Qharies Robei^Ison, James Harvey, Maria,
'di^ young; David G., died in Gteorgia; Williaim Nicholas,
Oatherne, Paltriek H. Caroline manried Oraighe«.d or Craig-
noyes; Harriet marrded Thornton; Susan onarried Patton;
Keziah married Dr. Hie<rnd«on of Kentucky.
James Harvey, son of William Vance, bom Jan. 4, 1811,
Greeneville, Tennessee, married Aug. 26, 1832 ait Warm
Springs, North Cairolina, Jane Sevier (daughter of Valentine
Sevier and Nancy Dinwiddle Sevier), died July 7, 1893 at
Kngsport, Tennessee. Children:
I. 'Charles Robertson, born Aug. !22, 1833, Jonesboro;
wmrried Oct. 16, 1860 Margaret New^lan^. They had:
(a) James Isaac, born Sept. 25, 1802, Arcadia, Tennes-
see; married Dec. 22, 1886 at Yorkeville, South Carolina,
Mamie Stile Currell. Children : Margaret, William, Agnes,
Ruth, James, junior, and Charles R.
(b) Rev. Joseph An-derson Vance, Nov. 17, 1864.
(c) Charles R .
(d) Margairet, Jan. 20, 1877.
(e) Rebecca, Jan. 20, 1877.
II. Maria. C, married Rev. John King, I^eosburg,
Virginia.
III. Anna Elizabeih, died young.
IV. Keziah, djed single.
V. James H., married Fasten Padlock. .
VI. Wm. K., married Fannie Miller, Union City.
VII. Nannie, died single.
VIII. Joseph, nrnmed Mattie Fain and had James F.,
and Ohai*les R.
IX. Jennie.
Pa^Jrick, son of William K. Vance, married^ Elizabeth
and had John, James, David, William, Rob »rt,
Sarah, married Campbell; Elizabl'h, married Davis; Jean,
Mary, Jost^ph, and Smuel.
William Nicholas Vance, M. D., son of William K. born
Nov. 12, 1814 at (jreenville, Tennessee, married Sarah Ann
Netherland and died^ Nov. 12, 1875. Chiildren: Keziah R.,
MaJrj' H., Samuel N., Charles S., Alice, William K., Ida,
Jennie and Robert.
\Mllim K., son of William N., barn May 27, 1852 at
Bristol, married Susan M. Dorit. Children: Frt derick,
Willi'am K., David and Douglas D. ArMfoss, Bristol, Ten-
Jiesse(\
339
Digitized by
Google
N)TABLE SOUTHERN FAMILIES
Captain David Vance
Captain David Vance born 1745 in Fredmck County,.
Virginia, moved in 1775 to Burke County, North Carolina,
where he taughlli school and becaane a surveyor. He served
at King's Mounlain nd probably also at Ratnsons, Musgrove
Mills,, Cowpens and Valley Forge. He was a member of the
House of Commons 1786-91, then removedl 4o Bnmcomb
County and in 1797, was one of tJie commissioners for run-
ning the line betwen North Carolina and Tennessee, and be-
came a Colonel of th»e militia. He died' about 1820. Some
aufihori!/ies give 'him as tihe son of Samuel and Mar-
gret LfiuughHn Vance, o^lhers as son of Samiuel and Miss
Colville, otihers as a son of And(rew, as brother of Samuel
(born 1762), brotheir of Jo86|>h Colville Vance, etc. Either
would indicate him to be descend<^nt of the Irish family of
Vans, as he no doubt w-as, the name David being common
in all branches of the fmdly.
David Vance married Priscilla Brauk and lived about
nine miles north of Asheville, North Carolina, on Reeves or
Reems Greek. The place of burial is upon a beautiful knoll
selected by Ihim as a place from which to rise on the resur-
rection day. The D. A. R's. have erected a monument over
Ms grave. There is also a very 'handsome mojiument to his
memory in the Public Square at Asheville, North Carolina.
Besides his wife he lelft sons Samiuel, David and Robert and
daughters Jean, Elizabeth, Sarah married* McLean, Priscilla
^married George Whifson, Celia marriedi Benjamin Brittaiii,
Samuel and the diaughters except Elizabeth, moved' to Eetst
Tennessee and sc'OHed on lands providied for them along the
Duck River* by their father. Mrs. Mary Burdett, of Austin,
Texas, is di3scendent of Samuel.
Jane or Jean, daaighter of David and Priscilla Vance was
born Nov. 1777, near Asheville, North lOarolina^ and married
Aug. 24, 1796 to Hugh Davidson. She died Jan. 12, 1858
near Wart^ace, Tennessee. Children of this couple were:
1 William Mitchell, born Aug. 21, 1797; ma«rried July
6, 1837 and died March 6, 1877. One child.
2 Priscilla, born July 6, 1799; married Jan. 2, 1821,
died Aug. 20, 1840. lYn cJhildren.
3 Margtaret M., born Oct. 18, 1801; manried Nov. 1,
1832, died April 21, 1868. Four child'ren.
4 David V., born Nov. 20, 1803; married Jan. 22, 1829,
died Nov. 3, 1869. Nine children.
340
Digitized by
Google
VANCE
5. Angeline, born July 26, 1806; married Dec. 24, 1824;
died Aug. 16, 184 — . Ndne childt^n.
6 Joihn J., born July 26, 1808; mairied Dec. 8, 1833;
died Oct. 12, 1897. Eleven children.
7 Sarah Eliza, born April 25, 1810; died Dec. 2, 1810.
8 Safluuel Leamter, born April 19, 1812; married three
times; died Dec. 13, 1870. Five children.
9. Hugh Lawson, born April 17, 1814, marred twice;
died April 30, 1889. Two children.
10 Rx)bert Bnauk, born Mai>ch 12, 1817; married twice.;
died Oct. 3, 1900. Two chjkiren.
11 Eliza Jane, born June 3, 1819; died S^pt. 18, 1822. .
12 MarHha Ann, Dec. 16, 1822; married Dec. 24, 1840;
died March 3, 1857.
John Quincy Davidson, son of Hugh and Jean Vance,
born June 26, 1808; married Dec. 3, 1833, Susan Hord, and
died Oct. 12, 1879. They had eleven children, namely:
1 Mary Jane, bom Nov. 14, 1834; marriMl May 5, 1865.
Nine children.
2 Rufus Exfanund, born Aug. 3, 1836; married Sept. 25,
1862; died 1908. Ten <^hildren.
3 Hugh Albert, born Jan. 8, 1839; m<amed July 30,
1885. Tu'o children.
4 SanKuel A., 'born*.Nov. 15, 1840.
5 William, born Aug. 20, 1842.
6 Susan Agnes, born March 12, 1844; married' Nov. 15,
1866. Nine childlren.
7 James Mitchell, born Sept. 6, 1849.
8 Harriet, Sept. 13, 1851; mairied Oct. 3, 1871; died
June 25, 1917. Eight children.
9 Ooleman Lawrence, March 1855; m^urried July 6,
1892.
10 RobL v., born March 26, 1858; married Oct. 14, 1884.
Four children.
11 Hameite E., d»aughter John and Susan, born Sept
13, 1851; married! Oct. 3, 1871 to Joseph Oliveir Arnold and
died June 25, 1917; had 1 Leonla Arnold born Nov. 14,
1872; married June ,5, 1899 at Wartrace, Tennessee, to Dr.
John Lane Walker. Children :
Elizabeth, Feb. 26, 1901.
Perry Arnold, Aug. 7, 1902.
Leola, Aug. 1, 1905.
Lvdir Lane, Sept. 16, 1908.
341 •' ,,'
Digitized by VjOOQIC
NOTABLE SOUTHERN FAMIUES
EUz-ibel'h, daughter of David, and Mary Priscilla B.
Vnce rnapried firsit, William Mitchiell Davidson, and second,
Smnuel Davidfeon. The Asheville, North Carolina family
desci»nd fmi this couple.
Robnrl Brank, son of David and Pniscilla Vance was a
meanber of congress 1824 and 25 and wias killed in a duel
n the latte«r year.
David, son of Davidl and Priscilla \%nce, born Jan. 2,
1792, died Jan. 14, 1844. He married Jan. 1825, Mira Mar-
garet Baird, born Dec. 22, 1802 and died* 1878. They had :
Laura Henrietta, boirn April 13, 1826.
• Robert Brank, April 24, 1828. . -
Zebulon B., May 13, 1830.
James Noel, Feb. 10, 1833.
Anna Ed'gewoT^fh, April 25, 1836.
Sarah Priscilla, Jan 4, 1838.
David L., Jan. 10, 1846. '
Hannah Moore, Aug. 10, 1842.
Zebulon Baird Vance, born Buncomb County, North
Oarolna, May 13, 1830 and died April 14, 1894. He married
Harriet Newell Epsy and second Mrs. Florence Martn.
He had ^Iwo sons and three daughters. He was
Colonel of the 251h North Carolina 'Regiment. He was
elected Governor of N'odh Caro'lina. He was one of the most
brilliant men who ever sat in the Senatorial Halls, adding
to his intellectual abli/Iy a ken and ready wit. He had four
sons. One Thomas M. Vance is a prominent lawyer and
politician living in Olympia, Wasihngton.
Robf^rt Brank Vance, brother of David, was Brgadier-
General in Confederate Army and member of Congrss sev-
eral terms. He married Harriet McHroy and had four sons
and two daughters.
Vance in the Colonial Wars of Virginia
Vance, Andrew — ^Hennings Statutes, Vol. 7, p. 216.
Vance, John — Augusta Records, Vol. 1, p. 518.
Vance, Patrick — Hennings Statutes, Vol. 7, p. 191.
Vance, Samuel — Hennings Statutes, Yol. 7, p. 216;
Vol. 8, p. 129.
Vance, Thomas — Hennings Statutes, Vol. 7, p. 198.
Vance, William — R. G. Thwai/Bers, Dunmore's Wars,
p. 412.
342
Digitized by
Google
VANCE
Vance in the Revolutionary War
Who Served in Virginia.
(From Revolutionary Soldiers of Virginia — State -
Librarian's List).
Vnce, David — Illinois Papers, D. 48; Rom. 15.
Vance, Hadley — Conquest of the Norttiwest, 2:849.
Vance, Jaimes — (Washing-ton County), Secrotary of War,
135; Nen., 2 205.
Vance, Jo^hn — (Ensigo) R. C.
Vance, Joseph— (Pi tte) 50; Saflfell 263; War 4, 284, 386.
Vance, Robeipf— (Captain) Ar. C. L. 26. Aud acct. VII, 214.
Vance, Robert — (Lieutenant) Heitman 408.
Vance, Robert— (Pitts) 16; War 4, 68.
Vance, Williaim — (Captain) Heitman 408.
Vance, Williajm — Illinois papers, D. 156.
Patrick Vance was appointed) fiihird siupgeon in Chris-
tian's Campaign at CSamp Lady Am/tier, Oct. 20, 1776. —
**Hstoric Sullivan," Page 63.
Digitized by
Google
Digitized by
Google
WEAR
The Wears came from ¥lsler, Ireland I'liey I'eached
Augusta County, Virginia, by way of Pennsylvania as did
many of the Augusta County, Virginia, early families.
In April 1719, Robert Wier was one of the settlers in
Nulfield, near Haverhill, MassachuseWs, (bu'l in New Hiamp-
stiire) under the leadership of James McKee. It is probable
that this Robert Wear was the father of Robert Wear, who
later was estaiblis^hed in Augusta Oouulty, Viirginia, and was
ttie father of Ool. Samuel Wear.
The settlement of Naitfield was thought to be in Massa-
chusetts, but 'Ihe general court of May, 1719, decided) that
it was in New Hampshire. James Gregg and: Robert Wear,
in k^-half of the Scotch-Irish settlers at Nutfield, asked the
Governor and Court assembled at Portsmoultih, New Hamp-
s*Kire, for a tov^nship ten miles square. They and others'
obtained a dr^' from Ccl. John Wheeilv^Tdght. Londondt rry,
New Hanypslhiire, was then incorporatedl in June, 1719. It
voted 'lo give a lot to each of Hhe first comers, "which is the
muuber (if twenty'' Robert Wear is one of tne twenty. To
Robf^rt Wear and his wife, Mant'ha Wear, a daughter, Eliza-
beth Wear ^ms born in 1723. ^ ^
A R(^b?rt XN'ear was Commissioner in Antrim County^
h-eland, 1717.
FVw names have l>een su'bjected to such varied spelling
as that of "Wear'*. Wier, Weyr, Weer and Ware are a
few of the variations. The early recorder's ortbography
confonmed only *to the sound of a name and' there its nicety
end(Hl. Quite often a faxn»ily laccepll'ed the change witlhoiit
protest, for to the pioneer, public records were more vital
than the mere differenc of a letter or two in the spelling
of his name. The families of Colonel Saanud Wear and his
brother, John Wear, seem to have preferred "Wear". Thert^
rre several romantic stories accounting for that preference.
3i5
Digitized by
Google
NOTABLE SOUTHERN FAMIUES
A laler family, spoiling the name **Weyr", settled Lb
N. lih Carolina shortly prior to the RvoMion. The Vir-
ginia tamily of which lihe Tennrssc^* family was a branchy
spelled the naino W>ip as many of tho descendants do to
this day
While it is possible Ihal Ih<» family name is a corniptioa
of the Anglo-Saxon word DeVere, Mrs. Louis(» Wilson
Reynolds, aMpibiifes its origin to t?he Gothic 'Wchren",
to check or from Ihe kindred Anglo-Saxon "\\'rr", which,
literally transcribed, means 'To d&fend, ilo protect". From
the latter we receive the woi^ 'Weir'', a dam.
A family of Scotch^ *'Weii»s" was established in Irelanil
in 1664 by the Rev. John Weir, who, with James Adair
and several other ministers was sent irito Ireland 'io ad-
minister Ihe covenant to all of the olTicers and sohfiei^s and
Pr( li'stanfls in Iivland".
The Rev. John Wear may have bt^^n the father, or
grandfatiher of Roberl Weir,' or Wear, of Nntfield, Massa-
chiiselfs.
As e4»rly as 1()90, we find in the City of Brotherly Love,
Charles W>ir asking for ''ye thirty foot lot on ye river's
bank adjoining Richard Wall and Timothy Clements".
Charles Weir received the lot; he also is recorded as
one of the first attorneys of Philadelphia.
., An early line of Pennsylvania Weirs, with branches in
OuYnberland County, is thought to have descended from
Charles WHr; the names Ix^ar a marked dissimilarity fo
those in the Robert Wear line.
Robert, John and Williaim Weir were the found»»rs of
the Bucks County, Pennsylvania, **Weirs". They are be-
lieved to have come from Massachusetts about the year
1737, and to have been sons of Robei^t Weir, of Nntfield.
In that case their mother was Marttha and -the^ir sister
was Elizabeth, a name frequent in the family to this day.
(Col. Semuel Wear named his eldest daughter, Eliza-
beth).
John Weir married Elizabeth Holmes, September 3, 1737i
No record has been found of !I(he marriage of Robert or of
William Weir.
Since no line has been found in Pennsylvania for some
time prior to the Revolution that could be credited to Joh»
Weir, and! as subsequen'tly saich a line dtoes -appear io
Virginia, we are led to the belief that John Weir emigrated
to Richmond before Robert Weir purchased land in [he
Borden grant in 1752.
346
Digitized by VjOOQIC
WKAK
Robert Wear, Father of Col. Samuel Wear
In 1752, a deed is recordied to Robert Wear and John
Gunninghain of eight hnndred and thirty-tbi'ee acrrs in
Borden's Tract, Angnsta County, Virginia, and in 1754,
Borden's executors deeded 2i0 acivs to Robert WVar and
his wife, Rebecca.
It is evident therefoi^e that Ro^l>eH Wear and his vvife
who was Rebecca , were settled in Angusla County,
Virginia abou'l 1752. l^is Ro^bert Wear must have l>eeri
born about 1715. His marriage to Rebecca , took
place about 1740. One of their sons, John Wear, was born
in Bucks Connty, Pennsylvania, OC>:b( r , 1742. Samiuol
Wear, tihe oth*er son of whom we 'have i^»cord, was born
in Augusta County, Virginia, 1753. Robert Wear x^-as living
\A the year 1789, and at t'hait period was probably about
seventy-four yeai's old*. To Ro^l>ert and Rt^K^cca —
Wear were born at leas't two sons, John and Saniiuel, and
possibly other children whose names have not l>een pre-
served.
Near the year 1792 there were residing in Greene (Jlounty,
Tenness(»e, Thomas Wear, John Wear, junior, Hugh Wear,
Thomas Wear and Saumel Wear. The name Robert
Wear ap|>ears on Colonel Wear's com|>any for the war
1785, but theiT is no evidience that lie (mned land, in the
coun:iy. Whether he was the father or a bro<t'her of (>)lon.?l
Samuel Wear oau only be coujeetured.
The pioneer family of Wears was not large. Hugh and
John Wear, junior, are supposed to 'have been sons of John
Wear, senior, a supposi'lion based on the fact that they
resided near or adjoining the farm on which John Wear
settled after his reomvel from Washington County info
•^reen 'County. This farm, on the Xollichucky river south
W Greeneville, is now^ lauywn as the Devault place.
Thomas Wear in 1783 resided l>etween Grt^^neville and
Newport ; his wife was named Elizabeth. Of Thcmias Wear
nothing more is known.
One of the above Wears, unfortunately the historians
do not give the name, was killed at the Ikittle of EtovAah,
April, 1793.
Two Wear marriages are n*corde<i in Greene C/ounly,
namely :
Mapgareit Wear to Hugh Cunningham, October 8, 1702.
Jane Wear to Thomas Lovelady, October 14, 1796.
347
Digitized by VjOOQIC
NOTABLE SOUTHERN FAMILIES
John Wear, Son of Robert Wear
John Wear, son of Robert Wear and brother of Colonel
Samuel Wear and referred \o in the early records of Wash-
ington and Greene Cuunties as "Jc<hn Wear, Genflefnail^'
was born in Bucks 'Qounlty, Pennsylvania, October, 174?,
and died in Sevier County, Tennessee, at the age of nineity-
iwo years. He was about ten years of ag« when his father
©migrated to Borden's ^ani, Augusta Oo«nty, Virginia.
Among other contemporary families who had emigrated
from Pennsylvania to Augu^Ia Coimfcy was 'that of Black-
burn.
(ieneral Samuel Blackburn, was a disitinguiahed ofTic^^r
of ithe Revolution, one of the most beloved friends of Gen-
eral Washington and one of the pallbearers at Washington's
funeral.
John Wear married in Atugusta County, Virginia, Nancy
Blackburn, a daughter of Benjamin Blaiokbuirn and a sister
of General Samuel Blackburn.
John Wear emigrated*, with his brother, Samuel Wear,
to Washington Oounty, Tennessee, abouib the year 1778. He
pmxjhased the plantation adjoining that of John Sevier and
\i^vc he resided for several years. A reck in tihe river knowu
as **Wear's Rock" is soi'pposed to mark the spot of an ac-
cidental drowning of some member of his family, but tra-
dffrion does not relate further details.
John Wear served under his brother. Colonel Samuel
Wear, a)t King's Mountain land was a soldier under General
Nathaniel Greene at the '^Surrended of Yorktown," as his
pension papers show, mentioning also Col. Wear's presence
ol York town. He is also reputed to have had mnoh of the
prowess, which dislinguished his brother in Indian war-
fare. He was a man of cullaire and intelligence and was
one of the early magistrates of both Washington and Greene
Counties. Afllier the marriage of his daughter, Margairet
Wear, to John Wilson. In 1792, John \\'ear moved into
Greene County. He purchased one of the first 'town lots
surveyed in ihe town of Greeneville, but resided on his
farm, then called a "plantation," which lay below the old
Greeneville College in a lovely vallley on the river, and which
for many years has been owned by the DeVault family.
Other friends may have failed' in their allegiance flo John
Sevier, Govornor of Franklin, but Samnile and John We^r
were faithful to the end. A laconic record once to be found-
348
Digitized by VjOOQIC
WEAR
on the books in the Greenevill'e court house, in the beautiful
faded ohirography of ite clerk, General Daniel Kennedy,
has in it not a liHitle pathos :
**0n this -day of February, 1789, John Sevier and John
Wear rode into court and took the oath thus subscribed ki
&uch cases".
The oath in question being that of renewed allegiance
to North Oarolina.
This was afller the fall of the hero^ic little state of Frank-
lin ,in which Sevier and the Wares ha-d been leading siprits.
In November of the same year, without a competitive
rival, John Sevier was elected to represent Washington
District, North Oarolina, in the UniHed States Congr^ess.
John \\'ear and his wiife, Nancy Bkckburn Wear had
ohildlren :
Elizabeth Wear, married James Giray.
Phoebe Wear, married George Maitithews.
&usaii (?) married Bird.
Hugh Wear.
George Wear.
Benjamin Wear, died l^etween 1835 and 1839.
Margart(( Wear, married Jo'hn W. Wilson, 170"^. She
died' 'between 1835 and 1840.
Nancy Wear, miaTried Thomas Alexander.
General Samlil Blackburn, of Virginia, dying without
issue, Margarrt \\*ear was one of the many nieces accord-
ing to the terms of his will, among whom his large estate
was divided.
At the date this legacy was receivedi, a witness in court,
Valentine Sevier, son of Governor John Sevier, testified to
years of intiaiiate friendship with John Wilson and his
wife, Margaret Wear Wilson, and stated *4hat when a boy.
wi^'h his lather's family, he had attended the celebration of
the wedding of Margaret Wear to John Wilson in Wash-
ington County".
Margaret Wilson's name has come down to her descen-
dants as a woman possessing many charm's audi virtui*s.
She was a full cousin of both Gid^eon Blackburn and of
'his wife, and the former always mlade his 'home with her
when his pastoral duties brought! him to Washington and
Greene Counties.
Margaret Wilson was the mother of several children.
349
Digitized by VjOOQIC
NOTABLE SOUTHERN FAMILIES
Mrs. Louise Wilson Reynolds has inherited Mapgarei
Wear Wilson's Bihle, vvhioh #?iv> s the eldest son, John
Wear Wilson, as horn SepUTn'l)er 10, 1793. John Wear
Wilson was a soldier miclvr General Andrew Jackson at the
Baf.lle of New Orlmns. H.» was twice married, first to Tsll-
bella Rankin, and sect nd, lo Sarah Holl.
The eldest daughter, Nancy Wilson, was named for
Margaret Wilsons mother. She nmrried Tho»mas Lee.
GOL. SAMUEL WEAR
Robert A\'ear, the father of Saanuel Wear ajid John
Wear (whose history has just been given), purchased land
in the Ho^d^Ml Tract in Virginia in 1752, and on What prop-
erty, in 1753, Samud \\ ear was born. His older 'brother,
John We^ar, was born in 1742, in Ducks Counly, Pennsyl-
vania, before the family left that state.
Samuel Wt^ar began the military life which he was to
follow always in 1777, when he was appointed ensign in
the Augusta Militia. As he lived near John Sevier, and as
both wvre yoimg ofTicere in the Augusta Militia, it is be-
lieved that th(»ir intimate friendship began in ttieir early
youth. It lasted throiighoait 'Iheir lives and they puirsued
careers singularly similar. It is believed that John Sevier's
removal 'lo the ''Mountains'' now Tennessee, influenced thai
of his friend'. Tliey were together in all the advent'urons
life of early Tennessee and served in the Indian campaigns,
at King's Mountain and other battles and late»r in the War
of 1812. They each married twice and each named a son
for t^he other, Saimuel l>eing a name frequently jxirne in
ifche Sevi(T connection to this day; John Wear l>eing equally
fiamiliar. John had been a frequent name in the Wear
family, as is evidenced in the foregoing record, but Samuel
is not apj>arent in .the Sevier records before Hihe birth of
Govi»rnor John Sevier's son who was named Sam-u el.
In 1778 Samuel Wear married in Augusta Gounty, Vir-
ginia. Mary (sometimes called *'Polly") Thompson, daugh-
ter of Wi'lHam Thoimpson and Elizabeth Lyle Thompson
(see *'No*table So'utihern Families, A'olume I, for the Lylo
rcordi) .
The children of Saimiel Wear and Mary Thompson
\^>ar were :
I. P^lizabeth ^^ ear, born October 4, 1780. who married
Robert Armstrong, Third. (See Armstrong Family, ''Notv
ble Souilhern Families, Volume I).
II. Robei^t Wear, who married Lucretia Thomas.
350
Digitized by VjOOQIC
WEAR
III. Rebecca \Ve«ar, who married John Wilt.
1\'. Samuel Wear, Second.
V. John Wear, who married first, Susannah Mullen-
Am*, and marri(»d second', Sara'h M. Patty.
M. Mary \^'(^r, who married Colonel Simeon Perry.
Oolonel SaiiKuel Wear, afl^r the death of Mary Thomp-
son \\'ear, married Mary Gilliland, daughter of John and
Rlizalx'Mi Gilliland and had children:
VII. Diana XA'ear, who married David Johnson.
VITT. Pleasant M. Wear, who married Tryphena Tipton.
I\'. Margtfipet Wear, who married D. B. Oummings.
X. Minerva Wear, who married John Guthrie.
(lolojiel Wear served in j>ublic life for half a cenoiry.
He removedi with John Sevier from Augusta County, Vir-
ginia, to th(» "Mountains" some time after his marriage in
1778 to Mary Thompson and before the Battle of King's
Mountain, October 7, 1780, wtien he ^^'as alrieadly a resident
of (he mountain country.
San>uel \>'ear, after making a c^hoice of land for his new
home, about five miles frcon Sevierville, on fthe wx^st side
of Little Pidg(H)n River, returned to Virginia for his family,
leaving a negi'o slave nain<Hl Frajik to take care of The place
and laise corn.
His d^iughter, Elizabeth Wear, was born in Augusta
Cmuity, Virginia, Octo^ber 4, 1780.
T]w i}hev Children of Samuel Wear seem to have 'been
boru in "the mountains'" in what is now Tennessee.
Cohuiel Wear served in the War of 1812 as a Colonel.
He died April 3, 1817 and is bnried within a mile of Hen-
d(»rson Springs, Tennessee. He willed his entire proper^ly
k) his second wif(» until his yonngest child should become
of age.
SaiU'uel Wear was a captain in the Battle of King's
Mouutain and one of the organizers of the historic band
whidi in the Battle of King's anountaJin pu^t the enemy to
iH)ute and j)ractically eiwled t'he Hevolulionary War.
His partioii)ation in King's Mountain is proved by every
early Tennessee history and hundred's of documents. He
was also present at 'the surrender of Yorktown, and 'this 'S
attested by the jM^nsion pai>ers of his brother, John Wear.
Samuel Wear's participation in all t^he early life of Ten-
ir ?see and the various governments which preceded the
351
Digitized by VjOOQIC
NOTABLE SOUTHERN FAMIUEb
firtate is well known. He was an ardent Indian campaigner,
quite as enthusiasHc and as successful as John Sevier, and
Hjairnsey's is full of liis adhievements.
He wias a clerk of the State of Franklin and Colonel of
its militia. He w«is a member of the first legislative body
ever assejnbled in Tennessee, the first Franklin convention.
He "was a member of the first Tennessee L^islature also
and a member of the comaniBtee which made the constitu-
tion of the ne%\^ state.
He was for many yeJars clerk of UShe Ck>unty of Sevier
and he served in the War of 1812.
He lived to a good' old age and is described by Lyman
Dira[)er in ^'Heroes of King s Mounifmn" as being iJall, fully
six feet in height, dark-complexioned and possessed! much
energy' of character.
His descendanits are all eligible to the Societies of the
Rpvohiliqn and the Societies of 1812.
The place selectiMi by Samuel Wear for his home is
known to this (My as **Wear's Gove".
He and two yoamg sons were fired upon by a party of
thirty savages on one occasion. Again on June 19, 1793,
a baud of Indians entered ^'Wear's Gove," out down the
growing corn, stole one horse, killed 'ten and destroyed the
mill. Col. Wear with a pai^ly of neighbors pursued the
maurauders and at TaHahassee a battle resulted in which
sixteen Indians were killed and four taken prisoner.
In 1784, lOol. Wear was elected '*diEMputy to the convention
to df»libera1e upon public affairs". The convention met at
Joneslxiro, Augtust 23, 1784. At tha'L con\^n4ion, the first
ever hf^kl in what is now T^^nnfossee, was born the Stale
of Franklin.
When the State of Franklin had become a fact after that
"deliberation upon puWic affairs", its new Governor, John
Sevier, appointed Samuel Wear, Glerk of the Gounity Gourt
of Sevier GounKy, and Golonel of the Regiment. In the
summer of 1786, he was appointed one of the Gommission-
ers to negotiate a treaty with the Indians. The conference
between the Gommissioners and the Indians lasted four
days and) ended at Goylbn, August 3, 1786.
Old Tassel and Hanging Maw were present at Ghota
Ford for this treaty. The land claimed by the Gommis-
sioners included the Island in the Tennessee at the mouth
of the Holstbn and from the bead of the Island to the divide
ing Ridge between the Holston, Little River and the Tennes-
352
Digitized by VjOOQIC
WEAR
see, which had been tpansferred to the settlers by North
Carolina.
After /Ihe short life and fall of Franklin, Governor Wil-
liam Blount called an election which was held in December,
1793, and Samuel Wear was elected a member of the first
Assembly of the Territory of Tennessee (represeniing the
Crounly of Jefferson). The Assemhly wajs cabled to order i!i
Knoxville, February, 1794. He was one of the committee
of five appointed by this Asseonbly to draft an address to
Congress. In this addi*ess the people of the Territory of
Tennessee demanded a declapation of War against th©
CSreeks and- 'ihe Oherokees.
His name is found continually in the early records of
the Territory and the State. and he was a member of the
first Tennessee Legislature after the Territory passed into
a Slate. He was a member of the Committee which wrote
the first Constitution.
In the War of 1812 he was a Colonel, though that title
had already been 'bestowed upon him during the brief life
of the State of Franklin. He died April 3, 1817, on his plan-
tation and is buried within a mile of Henderson Springs,
near Sevierville, Tennessee. He was survived by his second
wife. His will, which is recorded, left all his property to
his wife until his youngest child should come of age.
I. EUZABETH WEAR
Elizabeth Wear, ddest child of Samuel Wear and his
firsil wife, Mary Thompson Wear, was born October 4, 1780,
a few days before her father's participation in the Battle
of King's Mountain. She was born in Augusta County,
Virginia, though her father had removed to the "Moun-
tains" before :Ihat date, returning shortly after the King's
Mountain Battle to accompany his wife and daughter to
the new home.
Elizabeth Wear married Robert Armstrong the Third.
Their children were:
( 1 ) Drury Payne Armstrong, married Amelia Houston.
(2) Adidison Wear Armsilrong, married Nancy Mc-
Millan.
(3) Mariah Armstrong, married John Brooks and
Jaimes McMillaji.
(4) Rutelia Armstrong, married Thomas Gillespie
Oraighead. ^ ^issj
(5) Charlotte Perry Armstrong, married Samuel Arm-
strong and Henry Baldwin.
353
Digitized by VjOOQIC
NOTABLE SOUTHERN FAMILIES
(6) Robert Horace Armslrong, died young.
(7J Margaret Oimningham Armstrong, married Samuel
Hannibal Love.
(8) Dialthea Perry Annslrong, married Pleasant M.
Love.
(9) James Houston Armstrong, miarrie«d Ann E. Pork.
(10) Malinda Armstrong, married Samuel Morrow.
(11) Samuel Thmnpson Anrnstrong, died voung.
(12) Belty Annslrong, (Ikni af bir^h.
Elizabeth Wear \\"as accustomed to the someuiiat ex-
cilting life of a soldier's household, as she was tihe daughter
of the stalwart Saanuel \A>?u\ She must, therefore, have
been resigned to Robert Armstrong's career which was also
that of a soldier and Indian fighter. It is rela'led in the
family annals that on one occasion (1819), Robert Arm-
etrong returned from a campaign against the Indians to
find his wife and new born babe dead and a little son,
Robeiif, lying dead beside them. The little boy had probably
been exposed in some way during his mother's illness.
Elizaibeth Wear and Robert Armstrong the ITiird, and these
two little chilldren are buried on the place upon which they
lived, now known as the Bounds place, on the river a few
miles above Knoxville.
For the descendants of Ro])ei^I and Elizabt*4h Wear
Airmstrong see Armstrong Pa'mi'ly Vol. 1 Notable Sortiithern
Families.
II. ROBERT WEAR
Robert Wear, son of t)ol. Samuel Wear and his wife
Mary Thompson Wear, was born 1781, after his father and
mother had moved t'vinn Augusta (bounty, Virginia, to the
new country. He married Lucrelia Thomas. Their children
were :
(1) Louisiana Wear.
(2) Eliza Wear.
(3) Betsy T. Wear.
(4) Albert G. Wear, who died young.
(5) Mary Thompson Wear, or Polly as she was called.
(6) Erskine Haywood Wear.
(7) Malvina Wear.
(8) Gilbert N. Wear.
(9) Lelitia Wear.
(10) Isaac n. Wear.
(11) Lucinda D. Wear.
(12) Lucretia A. Wear.
35i
Digitized by
Google
WEAR
(13) Robert H. Wear.
(1) Loiiiskna Wear, bo-pn 1803, died 1890; married
John B. Tip'lon. Their children were :
Lucretia Tipton (who married Robert L. McNutt and had
no children) ;
Lavinia (who merriedi William H. Dawson and had
John B. Daw&on who married Phoebe Steed and had chil-
diren; William R. Dawson, who married Bettie Eknore and
had Eva L., Charles E. and Edna E. Dawson; Sarah L. Daw-
son, who married Frank Beals and had Frank and Daisy
Beals, and married second, David Simpson and had Jessie
Simpson; Mary L. Dawson (who married I>wis A. Hunt
and had Oharles F., Lewis and Glaldys Hunt) .
Marshall G. Tipton Who married Sarah J. Da^^^son and
had Mary Elizabeih Tipton (w'ho married Henry C. Cobb
and had Frank S., Robert C, Lena, Edgar, Oharles and
Margaret Cobb) ; Louise Tipton (who married Preston P.
Sooy and had Frank Sooy, and mamed' second, D. L. Ed-
monson) ; Marshall Alexander Tipton (who married Laura
A. Shelterly and'h»ad BeCAie C, Frank, Maoide and Marshall).
Elizabeth Tipton married John C. Wilkey.
Amelia M, Tipton married Hugh L. McNutt and had
Lucretia McNutt (who married Archibald Hitoh and had
Bobert E., Sadie D., William B. and Lina Hitoh) ; and Mary
E. McNutt (who married' Samuel P. Clark and had Hugh M.,
Lula and John Thomas Clark).
Sarah T. Tipton married' Elbert S. Cobb and had Mary
(who dred young) , Lena (who died unmarried) , Arty (who
married Andrew B. Montgomery and had Frank M., Myrtis,
Ar<ly and Joseph Montgomery), Aurelia (who married Lon-
nie M. Wimberly and had Dora C Wimberly), Malvina Lee
(who married Joseph Reagan and had Madge T. Reagan),
Rachel (who married William \y. McCormack and had
ClifTordi died young and another son), and Eva (who man-
ried Bennett White).
Malcom M Tipton married Amanda Rider and had no
-children.
Jonathan N. Tipton married Eliza Jane Blair and had
nine children : John Blair Tipton (-who married Addie An-
derson) ; Henry F. Tipton (w^ho married Daisy Belle Wil-
son) ; Malcom M. Tipton (w%o married Alma W. Mayo) ;
Oora E. Tipton; Robert F. Tipton; David D. Tipton; Laura
E. Tipton; Edgar E. Tipton and Pearl E. Tipton.
Gilbert H. Tipton married Martha Nelson and had Sid-
355
Digitized by
Google
NOTABLE SOUTHERN FAMIUES
ney N. Tipton (who marrieidi Elbridge Gerry Mayo), John
B., Hope M., NeI»on, Lawrence P. and Bessie A. Tipton.
Caswell T. Tipton nmrried' Evaline Montgomery and had
Samuel H., Robert 0., Edgar B., Nina L., Frank C, Horace
G. and Lou Annie Tipton.
Henry T. Tipton married Mattie T. Tipton and had
Louise, Lula, John H., Nellie, Lucy, Malcolm and Henry
Tipton.
(2) EHza Wear, daughter of Robert Wear and Lii-
oretia Thomas Wear, married Micfhael Girdner and had
seven children:
Lorindia Gird'ner married John W. W. De«anmond and
h«jd James M., Mary E., Lucretia Adeline, Haywood, Robert
B., Allen J., Samuel, Catherine L., Sarah T., Herman W.
F^liza Jane Gird'iier nuai'Tied William A. Amdau and
had Henry A. Audas, Ella A. Audas, Mary C Aud«J5, Eliza-
beth J. Audas, Maria E. Audas, James W. Audias, Lorenzo
D. Audas and Richard M. Aud€ts.
Alexander Augustus Girdiner married N'ancy VanBidder
and hadi Eliza H., Aseivalh Ann mid N*an€y Augaisitus.
Lucretia Malvina Girdner married John Audas and had
J. Thomas., Michael, Martha Jane, Samuel R., William
Henry, Isaac D., Jam-es B., Oharles H., Ha>n\'ood, John M,
and Lucretia Audas.
Lsoiiidas Ha'y^vood Girdner married Mrs. Asenath M.
Lowery and had Robert T., D. Richard, Bettie, Amanda,
Lillie, William Haywood, Oharles E. and Hattie.
Maria Looiise Girdner married Joseph Lowry Meek and
ha)i Katie G., James G., Charles W., Nancy E., Susan E.,
Martha J., Minnie F., Joseph F. and Amanda E. Meek.
Mary Emiline Girdner married Hugh Hamilton Craig
and had William G., James B., Ann Eliza, John H., Samuel
H. and Robep; C.
(3) Betsy T. Wear, daughter of Robert Wear and Lu-
Gretia Thomas, married Creed Fulton and had Ferdinand
FHi'lton and Aurelia Fulton; both died young.
(5) Mary Thompson Wear, daughter of Robert Wear
and Lucre' ia Thomas Wear, married James A. Gallegher
ami had Ella (w'ho married Zophar Case), Louisa (who
married James ShradV^r), and Lee Alhei^t Gallagher (who
married Antoinette Holly.
John Albert (iallagjher married Kate H. Gil'lman and
had Leo and Victor; maiTied second, Lina Catherine Gillum
and had Catherine.
(6) Erskine Hayw^ood Wear, son of Robert and Lu-
356
Digitized by
Google
WEAR
cretia Thomas Wear, married Rachel E. Mqppow and had.
tvvo daughters Lucretia Penelape We^arandMargare'tE. Wear
Lucretia Penelope Wear married Anderson L. Carson
and had several children who died young and Mary Alioe
Garson (married Hugh L. Isbell, Addie Roselia (married
James Hightower), Lillier Lucre^lia Carson (married Ander-
sen R. Tallent), Anderson L. Carsan (married' Alice
Newman).
Margaret E. Wear married John A. Hull and had Alice
May (married Lenry F. Lieb), Mary E. Hull (married
Henry F. Hughes), LiWie G. H'u'll (married John Irvine Hios-
tettor), Nannie Morrow Haill (married Charles W. Barnes).
(7) Malvina Wear, daughter of Robert Wear and Lu-
cretia Thomas Wear, marrieid James W. Lea and had :
Mary L. Lea (married Robert K. Byrd).
Myrtele A. Lea (married Denning) .
Albert T. Lea married Virginia A. Darnell and had a son,
Albert Eugene Lea, wh^o married his cousin, Deborah Wear.
(8) Gilbert N. Wear, son of Rober<t and Lucretia
Thomas Wear married Margaret A. Strain and had James
H., Nancy L., Susan Jane, Margaret M., Martha L., Robert
T., Mary L., Eliza \^^ ;and married second, Mary A. Wilson,
'by 'Whom he had the following children : William C,
Elbert N., Oscar Lowe, Mary, Julia A., Eugenia, Emma,
Gilbert L., Viola, Howard T. Gilbert N. Wear had twnty-
three children by his two wives. Some of Hliem died young
and are not enumerated in this list.
(10) Isaac Decatur Wear, son of Robert Wear and
Lucretia Thomas Wear married first, M. A. Blankenship, by
whom he had Elizabeth L. and Robert T. ; married* second,
Susannah A. J. Shelton by whom 'he had John M., Talbert
B., Looiisiana A. arid Susan D. ; and married 'third, Susanna
IsbeJl, by whom he had no ohildTen.
(11) Lucinda Jane Wear, married William Singleton.
(12) Lurcetia A. Wear, married Thomas Harvey.
(13) Robert. H. Wear.
in. REBECCA WEAR
Rebecca Wear, third' child of Col. Samuel Wear by his
first wife, Mary Thompson Wear, was born 1787. She died
1836. She married in 1807, John Witt. They went from
Tennessee to Fayetteville, Arkansas, Crittendon County, to
reside. They ^had eight childfeo, namely: Robert Witt,
William Samuel Witt, John Witt, Elizabeth Witt, Caroline
Witt, Margaret Witt, Charlotte Witt, Malinda Jane Witt.
357
Digitized by VjOOQIC
NOTABLE SOUTHERN FAMILIES
Robf rl Witt, son of John and Rebecca Wear Witt, bora
ajbonl 18U8, married about 1829, Sarah Wallace and moved,,
it is said, 1o Fort Snuiii-'h, Arkansas, where he died. TJiey
•had !Iwo children.
William Samuel Witt, son of John Witt and Rebecca
Wear Witt, was born about 1801. .He maj^ried first, in 1832^
Mary Dennis and had two children: Elizabeth Witt (who
married Oheston and haid a daughter t'hat married
George Trapp) ; William Jackson Witt, born 1845, died
1893, (who mteimned Catherine V. Gardner, daughter of
William Gardner and Matilda Robbins Gardner. Their
childrt4i were William Siamuel Witt, Mary M. Witt (pnar-
ried William Hobbs Watson of Hot Springs, and has a so«,
William Hobbs Watson) ; Lillian Mae Witt, Frederick Witt,
and Miles B. Witt).
John Witt son of John Witt and Rebecca Witt marrien
Lillian Harrington.
Elizabeth Witt, daughter of John Wilt and Re^becca
Wear Wear Witt, married William Lewis and went to the
Indian Territory to reside. They had four children, two
•daughlers names umkno'wn, and Maggie Lewis ("who mar-
ried Davis, lived in Vincent, Arkansas, anki had &
son. Perry Davis), and Joeeph Lewis, who married in Hot
Springs, Arkansas, and went to Indian Territory to reside.
Caroline Witt, daughter of John Witt and Rebecca Wear
Witt, married Isaac Grabb. Nothing further is known,
of her.
Margaret! Witt, daughter of John Witt and Rebecca
Wear Witt, married Oliver Wallaoe and had four children,
among theim Houston Wallace.
Ohairlotte Witt, daughter of John Witt and Rebecca
Wear Witt, married Berry. She left no children.
Ma-lilda Jane Witt, daughter of John Witt anid Rebecca
Wear Witt married first in Vincent, Arkansas,
Locker and had Frances Lockeo*; married second,
Edwards and haid' Josephine Edwards; married third Berry
Lack and had no children by him. Prances Locker married
ThOimas Smith, of Vincent, Arkansas, and had Adolplius
Smith, 'Oharles Smith, Katie Smith and' Ethel Smith. Katie
SmVJh married William Graven. Josephine Edwards, the
only child by Malinda Jane Witt's second marriage, mar-
ried James Brown and had one dteiuglhter named Cleveland
Brown. Matilda Jane WiW, married third Berry BHack
Ibut had no childi*en by this marriage.
358
Digitized by VjOOQIC
WEAR
IV. SAMUEL WEAR, JUNIOR
Samuel Wear, son of Ck)l. Saimiel Wear and Mary
Thoimson Wear, inarried and livcld' in Alabama.
I't is believed thai he married Sal'lie \A''hite, as a mamage
record in Knox Oounly, Tennessee, September 26, 18H, is of
Saimuel Weai, junior, ito Sallie Whi'tie. His children were
David Wear, Rebecca Wear and Mary Wear.
V. JOHN WEAR
John Wear, son of Col. Samuel Wear and Mary Thomp-
son Wear, born about 1792, married' Susannah MuHendore,
and mairied second Sarah M. PaBty. His diildren were;
Mary Wear (who imarried first Isaac T. R. EHis and married
second George W. \Aaters) ; Miisadora Weair( who married?
Maslon E. Eslinger) ; Robert Wear (who married Matilda
Ann Francisco) ; Lavater Wear (who married Martha Jane
Meyers) ; El<izat)etli Wear (who married first Alfred Baker
and married second' Enoch L. Waters) ; Malindia H. Wear
(who married John Murray Marshall) ; John Wear (who
married Julia L. Gabler) ; Thomats J. Wear (who married
Mary 'Oow^sen) ; Roten G. Wear (who married Sarah E.
Stevenson) ; Creed F. Wear (who died unmarried^) ; Diana
Wear (who married Ezikel K. Hurst) ; Marrtha Wear (who
married James M. Bird) ; Nancy Wear (w?ho married John
Oaylor) ; Isaac D. Wear; Rebecca Wear (who married Bart
Suttles) ; Jose»phine Wear (who married Nathan Meyers) ;
Solly Wear (who married James A. Ke«rley) ; Malvina Wear
(who married first Wyley Brickley, and married second
Alfred Boiling) ; Letilia Wear (who married Willam
Hatcher) ; and Pleasant A. Wear (who married Olive Bruce
McGown).
VI. MARY WEAR
Mary Wear, sixth child of Col. Samuel Wear and his
first wife, Mary Thompson Wear, was born 1795. She
died 1821. She married 1801, Simeon Perry. Their chil-
diren were:
( 1 ) Caroline Frances, who married Drury H. Field and
had Mary F. FieM (who married Isaac Newton Jones and
had John F. Jones, William I. Jones, Wood F.' Jones and
Gemrge A. Jones) ; Drury H. Field, junior (who married
Lajura A. Pearce and had John E., William H., and Susanna
P.) John Edwin Field (who married Fannie S. Brown and
359
Digitized by VjOOQIC
NOTABLE SOUTHERN FAMILIES
had Jesse B. Field and William R. Field), Game Eliza
Field (fwho marpied Bradley Henry and had Surrey Henry,
Thomas P., Henry an«d Jdhn M. Henry) , Florence Field (who
married John Wood Lindley), Eudora Field (who married
ftrsl Daniel W. Hearne and married second William Boul-
ware),awd Ma'llie Lee Field ('NVho married Gabriel M.
Eddins).
Jaimes Monroe Perry, who maoried Mrs. Hannah Jack-
son Brace, widow of Dr. Robert Bruce and daughter of
Green Jackson. Their chiWren wer%: Imogen© and Ho^.
ratio, (died young) ; Mozelle Peiry (who manried John G.
Kirksey and had Imogene, Walter P., Kenimope V., Mozelle,
Pauline. Ilermance, Guy, Gertrude, and Ina) ; Deaicalion
Perry (who married Mattie Barnes and bad Haile, Mozelle,
and- Haltie) ; Conrad Perry (who married Alice Barnes and
hiad Stewart Estello an'd Teanpe), ancB Tenipe P^rry
(who marri( d Ooloimbus Haile and had Teimj>e and Oolum-
bus who both died young, an»d' Temipe and Elsie) .
Oolonel Samuel Wear married Hwice. His first wife,
MK-uy Thompson, died in 1797. His second wife was
Mary Gilliland. She survived her distinguisihed husband
for m<oro than tweniy years, and according to diescriptions
left by her grand ohild'ren, was a pretty, vivacious woman,
fond of gaity and the center of an interesting group. Colo-
nel Wear died April 3, 1817. As a Oapflain at King's Moun-
iain, a Oolonel in the War of 1812, and' an im'portant man
in the comm'unity from every point of view, his widow had
a station to maintain and she seems to have enjoyed main-
taining it. Oolonel Wear did noJl apply for a pension, nor
did his widoov'. His means and hers, followng his death,
were ample. She lived until some ti/me in the early forties,
the exact date of her death not being known.
She had four children, namely: Diana; Pleasant M.;
Margaret and Minerva.
VII. DIANA WEAR
Diana, pi^obably fihe eldiest child of Oolonel Samuel Wear
and Miary Gilliland Wear, married Dovid Johnson, who
went to Missouri before 1840, being the first of the family
to go there. He built and established ilhe first Dry Goods
store in Springfield, Missouri.
• VIII. PLEASANT M. WEAR
Pleasant M. Wear, son of Oolonel Samuel \A'ear and his
$ec(md wife, Mary GillHland W'ear, was born October 12th,
300
Digitized by VjOOQIC
WEAR
1802, in Sevier ounty, Tennessee. Pleasant M. Wear was
Clerk of the Circuit Court of Sevier County from 1828 to
1838. He then served as a Major in the Seminole War in
Florida. Some time in 1840 he removed with his family
and slaves to Missouri, whore for majiy years he was Clerk
of the Court of Lawrenoe County. He died in Mount Ver-
non, Lawrence County, Missourli, January Tlilh, 1870. He
married, before leaving Tennessee, Tryphena Tipton, daugh-
ter of Colonel John Tipton. There is an interesting story
about this marriage. We know' of the Sevier-Tipton feud.
Wp know of the Sevier-Trptoii friendsihip. A Wear boy
and a Tipton girl were swee^lhearts. The Weair^ were op-
posed, probably the Tiptons also. The boy and girl were
(fcteraiined. They agreed to bury fhe subject of the inherited
illfeeling and get married. This they 'did and loyally kept
th<' agi'e anient. This boy was Pk'asanli M. Wear and the girl
Tryphena Tipton. She died in Mount Vernon, September
Isl, 1863. He married for his second wife, Mrs. Naomi
M<^all. He had no children by his seoon»d wife. His chil-
dren by his first wife, Tryphena, were: Malinda; Lavinia;
Mary; Helen Mar; Margaret; Oscar; Lucretia; John Guth-
rie; Caswell Tipllion; Pleasant M., junior; Alice.
Malinda Wear, daughter of Pleasant M. Wear and Try-
phena Tipton Wear, was born November 27th, 1827. She
died in the early part of December, 1862 in Fayetteville,
Arkansas, as a iresult of exposure in that most severe of
all winters, while aWending wounded Confederate soldiers.
She was married Deceniber lOiih, 1845 to John Sprller Kim-
braugh who wajs born in Louisa County, Virginia, July 5th,
1819. and died in ainton, Missouri, May 16l!h, 1895. Their
chil-ciren were: Mary Ksalherine; Pleasant M., and Anna
Nixon We'ar.
Marj^ Kalherine, daughter of Meilinda Wear and John
Spiller, Kimbrough, was born in Springfleld, Missouri, Juno
24Ui, 1850; died' in Clinton, Missouri, Augusftl 28th, 1894;
married in Clinton Missouri, November 16th, 1871, Harvey
Wallis Salmon, who was bom Janruarj^ 16tii, 1839, Green-
vifte District, South 'Carolina. They had five Children :
Harvey Woodson Salmon, born March 18th, 1873, in
Clinton, Missiauri, married in Kansas City, Mis&ouri,
August 21st, 1905, Myra Qudntilla Smi'lh who was born
August 12th, 1882 in Seattle Washington. They had two
dhildren, Katherine Bush, born in St Louis, Missouri,
August 11, 1906, and Elizabeth Kimbrough Salmon, born
May 1st, 1910, in St. Louis, Missouri.
361
Digitized by
Google
NOTABLE SOUTHERN FAMILIES
John Young Salmon, born August 28th, 1875, died
January 26th, 1886.
Mew-itl Kiinbroiigh Salmon, born in Clinton, Missouri,
August 23rd, 1877. He was nuirriod! in August, 1917. to
Florence Estclb M'cLccd, of Michigan, and now resides in
Los Angelee?, Oalifornia. Tliey have no childien.
Louis Salmon was born September 9lh, 1879, at Clin-
ton, Missouii and married-Jime 7th, 1905 at Clinton, How-
Bflxl Bailey, who was born in Georgetown, Kentucky,
October 24th, 1861. They have no children.
Warren Davis Salmon, was born at Clinton, Missouri,
January 2nQi, 1882, died in St. Louis, Missouri, November
27th, 1916. He married Katherine Lindsey, March 19th,
1904, at Sedalia, Missouri. -Their children are: Har\'ey
Wallis, born Clinton Missouri, January 12th, 1905. Mar-
garet Lindsay, born June 27^h, 1909 in Clinton, Missouri.
Fieasant \\>ar, son of Malinda. Wear and John
6pillcr Kimbrough, married M^y Brooks and had seven
childr^Mi, namely: Russell Wear, married; Katherine
Salmon, married E S. Nolen by wihom she had a son,
Edwin Salmon Nolen; Maude; Pleasant Wear; Oscar;
Susan and Allen Brooks.
Anna Nixon, daughter of Malinda Wear and John
Spiller Kimbrough, married' W. A. Davison, a lawyer of
Jefferson City, Missouri. They have no children.
Lavinia, daughter of Pleasan't M. Wear ami Try-
phena Tipton Wear, was born in Tennessee, July 17, 1829,
and married Dr. Nicholas B. Hooker, April 7tih, 1846. Their
dhildren were:
Katherine, (Mary T.), who was born January 3,
1848, married Henry George, January 15, 1867, in Mount
Vernon, Missouri, and had two children: Sarah (Sallie),
who married George King and had two sons, Paul and
Ohades, who live in Little Rock, Arkansas; Charles B.
who died oinmarried.
William Barnes, who w^s born Novem'ber 13, 185'3.
He is unmarried.
Oharfes, born Ctetcber 24, 1855, who married- Tblirsa
Bell, May 25, 1879, lives in Monnt Vernon, and 'has two
ohil'dlren : Clyde and Floss. Clydie married Andy McCanse,
February 7, 1904, and to theon were born tlhree diildren:
Harrell, McOanse and N. B. Floss married Henry Toliver,
February 7, 1907.
Pleasant M., was bmn Decemiber 11, 1907.
Mary, daughter of Pleasant M. Wear and/ Typ^hena
362
Digitized by VjOOQIC
WEAR
Tipton W^ar was born in Tenn'essee, March ;:^5, 1831. She
mairied flrs-t Tho«ms Jefferson Goirk, August 17, 1848, by
whom sihe had one son, Thomas J., junior, She -married
second John W. Ween, by wih-om she had Ave children:
Oscar Hdmes, who married Catherine Reynolds, of Mount
Vernoui; Tipton, Jesse W-ear, wJho married Minnie Barker,
Sarali Tryphena, who married John Henry Brown, and to
(his union four child*ren were born: Daniel Marion,
Florence, Ophelia and Thomas, and William Woodson, w^ho
married Hattie Kir'by (one child), Lelia.
She marr'ied third Thomas Stephens, by ■wihom she had
three girls, Frances Kate, born March 25, 1870, and married
Jack Reynolds, die^dl later in Coffeyville, Kansas, January
1889; Naomi Blanche, bcrn Augiis»l 29, 1872, married' first
J. A MillBr, second S. K. Gibson; Lavinia Josephine, born
May 15, 1868, married D. M. Fenton, Noveon'ber 10, 1892, and
'has one daughter, Freda Madaline, w'ho miarried R. B.
Harness and lived in Kansas City, Missooiri.
Helen Mar, dlaaighter O'f Pleasaii'I! M. and Tryphena
Tipton Wear, w^as born December 27t'h, 1832, and died
young.
Margaret, daiighfer of Pleasant M. Wear and Try-
phena Tipton Wear, was born January 7th, 1835, died in
mfancy.
Oscar Wear, son of Pleiisanit M. Wear and Try-
phena Tipton Wear, was iborn October, 1836; married
Prances Brown in 1859. They had no chiidlren.
Lucretia Wear, daughter of PleasanH M. and Try-
phena Tipton Wear, was born Nove<m't)er lOlih, 1838, and
married Thomas Everett in 1854.
John Gutfhrie, son of Pleasant M. and Tryphena
Tipton Wear, was born Novem'ber 4th, 1840. He was a law-
yer, a Gonfedlerale soldier, and Judge of the U. S. Disitriet
CJouirt of Southeast Missouri. He received the appointment
from President Cleveland and served as Judge far sixteen
years. He saj-s that his father, Pleasiant M., used to tell
him of the change in the spelling of the name. Colonel
Samuel, a patriot, had a break "wilih members of the family
who were for King George. In defiance of kings and "tax-
ation without representation'",he changed the ''i" to **a"
making Weiir in'to Wear. John Guthrie Wear was
married on November, 1865, 'to M'iss Young: Their chil-
dren were: Oharles Young Wear, died! in early manhood;
Pleasant M., died young; Catherine, married William
Dickey, and has one son John, married.
363
Digitized by VjOOQIC
NOTABLE SOUTHERN PAMIUES
Caswell Tipton Wear, son of Pleasarit M. Wear and
his wife Tryphena Tipfon W-mr was 'born in Grwne Crounly,
Missouri, June 25, 1842. He marriecJ Sarah Elizabeth Par-
rotit, May 31, 1863, at Mounjt Vernon, Missouri. He died
Jan. 23, 1921, at Pkcentia, Galifopnia, and/ was buriledat
Pawnee, Oklahoma, by the si<le of his wife wh^o had died
several years before him. The ohildlren were Oscar De-
WiM Wear, w«ho di^ yoaing; Horace G. Wear who was born
October 25, 1865 (married Neilia Kelly and had' one child) ;
Saanuel Tipton Wear, bom September 27, 1867; Prances
Try])hpna Wear, barn December 11, 1869, died Novemtber
19, 1898 (married William C. Oherry and had one chilil
who died young) ; Mary Eleanor Wear, ^Jaughter of Gas-
well T. andi Sarah Elizabeth Wear, 'born Jan. 28, 1872, mar-
ried Philip Dixon Sergemt, at Mount Vernon, Missouri, Dec.
29, 1891. Their children are :
David Wear Sergeant, born Oct. 23, 1893, and
married Oairie Aline Wining, at Ashland, Oregon, Dec. 8,
1915.
Hilda Marguerite Sergent born Dec. 28, 1875, married
Ernest Joseph Vaillancour at Ashland, Oregon, 'Feb. 18,
1920.
Mildred Dorothy Sergent, born June 22, 1897.
Mary Elizabeth Sergent, born Marc^h 3, 1899 mar-
ried Ralph Wil'ber Swihai^l, April 23, 1921, at Vancouver,
Washington.
Horace Caswell Sergent, born Nov. 4, 1902, mar-
ried Violet Esther McOoHum, July 16, 1921, at Kalama,
Washington.
Mildred Clay Wear, born January 27, 1874 (married
July 18, 1904, Oherles E. Booth, married, second, April 5,
1919, Arthur llamilton Van Hays) ; Judteon PleasanH. Wear,
born April 4, 1879 (married Myrtle, Reese, July, 1901. She
died October 2, 1904. Their only child died young) ; Judsoa
Pleasant. Wear married for his second wife, Dora Ellen
Spears) ; William Victor Wear, born August 20, 1881,
(married Ora Nelson, December 26, 1901. Their children
are: Raymond Victor Wear, born June 22, 1903, and Mil-
dred Eugenia Wear, born June 22, 1909).
Pleasant M. Wear, jimior, soai of Pleasant M. and
Trvjihena Tiplon Wear, was born in Mt. Vernon, Missouri,
Feiiniary 29, 1848. He married and has a family and now
resides in Vinita, Oklahoma.
Alice, diaughter of Pleasant M. and Tryphena
Tipton Wear, was born in Mount Vernon, Missouri,
364
Digitized by
Google
WEAR
February 29th, 1848. ■ She married Septemibeir 1st, 1869,
Richard McPaH, who died January 2nd, 1889, in MacDon-
ald Ckwinty, Missouri. Ten children were born to them:
Triphena, born October 9jh, 1870, who married October
9lih, >188'/, Roiberl Boyd, and had one child: Nora, born
September 20fch, 1888 (tmarried W. W. ttemderson, 1905, and
hlad one cJhild, Louise, who was born in 1908) .
Etlffl. McFall, born Fetoruary 27th, 1872; unmairied.
Oscar McFall, born March 1st, 1874, died November
9th, 1892.
Eura'h McFall, bom January 29th, 1876; died in infancy.
Gabriel A. McFall, born November 28tih, 1878, married
March 20th, 1904, Ethel Gillette and had three children :
Almond G., J«une 18th, 1906, died Dcamber 3rd, 1906; Byron,
born Jiaii'uarj^ 17th, 1908; and Thyra, born July 7th,. 1811.
Eleanor McFall, born March 27th, 1881 ; died in infancy.
Lawrence McFall, born March 27th, 1882; unmarried.
C. H. McFall, born August 26th, 1884; unmarried.
Caswell McFall, born October 25th, 1887.
Jesse G. McFall, born January 22nd, 1889, married in
1911 Andrew Benne*!1. Their children Av^ere: Harold
Bemiett, bom Novnuber 26th, 1911; Wiliiam Bennett, born
May 15th, 1914; Donald Bennett, bom May 8lh, 1917;
Loleta Bennett, born Jamiary 1st, 1920.
IX. MARGARET WEAR
Margarol: Wear, daughlter of Colonel Samuel War and
his second wife Mary Gilliland Wear, married the Reverend
D. B. Cummings, who was sent as one of the first mission-
aries to the Indians after their removel to the Indian Terri-
tory. They had at least one child, Colonel Pleasant Wear
Oummings, who commanded fhe lOIh Missouri Infantry,
O. S. A., and participated in the battle of Prairie Grove, in
Arkansas. December 7lh, 1862, Pleasant Mill, Louisiana,
April 9th, 1864, and Jenkins Ferry, Arkansas, April 30th,
1864.
X. MINERVA WEAR
Minerva Wear, the youngest child of Colonel Samuel
Wear and his wife, Mary Gilliland Wear, was born in Se-
vier Oounty, Tennessee, October 20, 1807. She married
John Gkithrie March 291h, 1825. John Gu)thrie was born in
Scotland and came from Richmond to Sevier County.
He owned the Sweden Furnace. He built the first paper mill
in the South. He owned the Holston Paper Mill, the Brig^ht-
365
Digitized by
Google
NOTABLE SOUTHERN FAMILIES
hope Furnace, n€»ar Greenville, and <Hie Middlebrook Paper
Mill, at Knoxville. John Guthrie, at the reorganization of
the University of Tennessee, was a me^mber of the first
Board of Tnistees. His hmve in KnoxviUe was called
Midd»lehnK>k (later owned by Major Webb). John and
Minerva Wear GuHhrie left Knoxville in the early forliv^s.
They went to Nashville, then to Columbia, Tennessee, where
Minerv^a die<t June 4, 184.4. John Gul'hrie died also in
Gohunbia, Splember, 1844. A son John Gn*hrie, junior,
died about l(he sainie itinie, end the graves of 'the three lie a
few feet froini tihe graves of Pivsident Polk's father and
mother. The children o-f Jo-hn and Minerva Wear Guthrie
were :
Franklin Guthrie, born 1827, died in infancy.
(Catherine Margaret Gu'llhrie, bom J'une 11, 1830.
Mary Granger GuBhrie, born 1833.
Helen Mar Gu«thrie, born October 21, 1835.
Juhn Ohavallee Guthrie, 'born 1838, died 1843.
Victoria Guthrie, born February 2, 1841, died 1908,
Martha Jane Guthrie, born Febniary 24, 1843, died 1855.
On the death of their parents, the Maury County Ck>urt
appointed guardians for tine children : W. H. Mack, a Pres-
bv<eriian minisiter, was the guardian for Gatflierine Guthrie;
Major Gordon was guardian for Maiy Grang'er Guthrie;
Reverend W. M. Shemand was guardian for Victoria Guth-
rie. John Guthrie was said to be! the wealthiest nian in
East Tennesst»e. Anvong dllher pro])eHies, his daughters in-
herited several negroes, some of Whoni lived until a few
years ago. An in*(»re€<ting old court record of Maury
bcninty, Tennessee, dated) 1849, gives a partial lis^t of the
darkies left to the children of Joihn and Minerva Wear
Giithrie, namely: Hannah, Ijeah, Sarah, Abram, Mary,
Blount, Wesley and Jane.
Of the children of John and Minerva Guthrie:
Oafherine Margaret Guthrie 'married Dr. Thomas
\Aihite Kelton, of North '(J^aroHna pan^-ntage, born near Mur-
frtH^boro, Rutherford G<nmty, Tennessee. (For her d^t^cen-
»dlants see Kelton Paonily).
Mary Gff'anger Guthrie was born in 1833. She mar-
ri(»^d Captain Samuel Rankin Latta of Dyersburg, Tennessee,
in 1852. The marriage took pl'ace in EaJton, l^nnessee, at
the home of the bride's sister, Mrs. Thomas White Kelton,
(Oatherine Margaret Guthrie). Captain Lattia was born in
Pennsylvania in 1827, and was descended from the Revo-
360
Digitized by VjOOQIC
WEAR
liilionarj' family of LalKia of that slate. He came to Ten-
nessee in 1850. " He and Mary Granger Guthrie celebrated
their golden wedding anmversary in the ihome in Dyers-
burg to which he had broughit ihis bride. Capta:in Latta died
1911, His A\ife lived un4il Septem'ber, 1922. Their children
were :
John Guthrie I^tta.
Kate Latta.
Mary Elinor Latta.
Sarah Latta.
Frank Latla.
Samuel Granger Latta.
Of il'he foregoing:
Jo4in Guthrie Latta was born in 1858. He married
December Gth, 1882, Leonora Poliajid. Their children are:
Leslie Latta, tiorn November 13. 1883, in M<arshall, Texas;
married Harry B. Watkins in 1908. They live in Memphis
and have the following children : Leonora, born August 6,
19<J8, died February 11, 1913; Harry B., junior, born Sep-
lenHber 3, 1910; Mary, born April 24, 1912; Jacquelyn, born
September 28, 1914. (b) Nell Latta, -born in Dyers^burg,
April 26, 1/^85, married H. G, Mariey, in 1907. She lives
in Memphis and has two children: John Hampton, bom
March 26, 1910, and Richard, born AugiusH 3, 191^. (c) Ploy
L^'tta, boirn May 6, 1892, married Robert J. Beaslej^ in 1912.
They live in Beeville, Texas, ^andl have two children.
R)/>bert J., junior, born January 26, 1913, and Dorothy, born
May 19, 1914.
foite Latta was born in Dyersburg, October 17, 1858,
and married T. C. Gordon, who was born in Jackson,
Louisiana, on the 7th of May, 1856. To them were born six
children : Mary Gordon, bom April 26, 1880, in Dyersburg,
Tennessee. She was married to J. P. Pelham on June 11,
19i31, and had three children: GortJJon; Mary; WilUam.
W'infield Osceola, born in Dyers^burg, January 27, 1882. He
has never married. Sadie Louise, born in Dyersburg, July
6. 1884, and died in Sisseton Agency, Dakota, December
11 1887. Kate Latia Gordbn was born at Sisselon Agency,
Dakota, May 7, 1887. Sihe wnas married) to Qark Tindall
Jones, of G(>lumbia, Tennessee, and had two girls: Harriett
and Olark. Mr. Jones died in February, 1919. In Septom-
l>er, 1921, Mrs. Jones married Doctor Wallace Wilkes, of
Oohimbia. Samuel LaMa Gordon was born in Dyersburg,
August 22, 1889. He is a)l present a lawyer. He served as
a ^^iplain iii Ihe World War. Helen Marr Gordon, was
367
Digitized by
Google
NOTABLE SOUTHERN FAMIUES
born January 11, 1892. She mairrie<d) in Los Angeles, Cal-
ifornia, to J. Y. Johnston on the 151*1 of May, 1918, and
(tied September 30, 1918.
Sarah Kno^t Lallita was born Petoruary 12, 1862, and
miarried Novem'bep 14, 1888, WilliMn Madison An<iers<>a
and Martha Ann Holmes. Their children are :
Dr. Wm. M. Anderson, junior, born September 29,
1889. He imarriedl October 23, 1916, Nancy Lee Gtosselll, at
Dallas, Texas, and they 'have one dteiughter, Sarah Catherine,
born Fe^bruary 11, 1921.
Samuel Latta Anderson, born July 19, 1891, is a
lawyer. He served in tihe World War. He entered Hie
Training Oamp, May, 1917; was cotmmissioned' Captain and
assigned to Ca'mp Travis, 165 Depot Brigade; served! as com-
pany commander; batta'liion comm<ander; regimental adju-
/iJant; assistant brigade adjutant. He was coamnissioned
Major, September, 1919; Brigade Adjutant until December
22, 1910, when he receivedMhis discharge.
President of Court Marsball oinltil dlischarged.
John FronkMn Anderson, born February 19, 1921
married December 23, 1919, to Carrie Lucy Strain, and they
have one son. Holmes Guthrie Anderson, jainio^, bom No-
vember 3, 1920.
Granger Anderson, born July 27, 1895. He sensed
in the World War. Entered tihe Training Gamp 1917, was
commissioned 2nd Lieutenarit and assigned to thfe 345 Field
Artillery; was made 1st Lieutenant later. He went to
France, June, 1919, with tlhe 90th Division, and served in
the Army of occupallion until ordered home. He married,
August 20, 1919, Forest Richardson, and they have one
child, Forrest Isabelle Anderson, born February 19, 1921.
John Franklin Anderson, born Fbrtuary 19, 1921.
He entered the|R. 0. T. G. as a stu/dien at Austin College,
1918, and went to Camp Arthur, Waco, Texas, 1918. He
marreid August 14, 1919, Jewel Thomason, and has a son,
John Franklin Anderson, junior, born May 27, 11920.
Robert Albert Anderson, bom January H, 1900;
July 24, 1901.
James Rankin Anderson, born Mardh 9th, 1802, is
now a sluden»[j.' He entered 'tihe R. 0. T. C. in Forrest Avenue
Hig^h School and traineid at Louisville, Kentucky, in the
sumimer of 1919.
Mary Eleanor Latta, fourth child of Captain Samuel
LaUla and Mary Granger Latta, was born March 9tih, 1864;
married November 30, 1897, to John P. Grigsby, who was
368
Digitized by
Google
WEAR
■born April 4t'h, 1840. He was a gallant soldier in the War
Between 'thie States and died April 21, 1921. They lived ia
Dyersburg and had one child, Mary Granger Grigshy, who
vvas born August 26, 1899. They live in the old Latta hornet.
Prank Wallace Latta, fifto childl of Samuel Rankift
and Mary Gnanger Latta, were born July 4th, 1866. He ha«
for m'any years 'been Post Master of Dyersburg, holding that
position "dudng «many political upheavals. He was married
April 29th, 1891, <o Pearl Willis Doyle, of Knoxville. Their
children are : A son, born March 22, 1892; dieidi in infancy.
Stianley Doyle Lattta, born May 11, 1893, served' as a volun-
teer in <:ihe Navy through the World War. He was married
on Decembe/r 28, 1920 to Bdha Moore of Clinton, Kentucky.
He died Feibruary 5th, 1921. Samuel Rankin Latta was
born April 3, 1896. He served as a volunteer in the
Artillery thiroughout «l(he war. John HJokimian Latta, bom
December* 10th, 1897, servedlas a voliunteer dfuring the latter
months of *he war. Eveljn Belle Latta, bom October 24^
1898. Sadie Knott Ijaiita, born January 22, 1906.
Saonuel Granger Latta, son of Saimuel R. and Mary
Granger Latta, was boirn Augus«t 5,1871. He is a lawyer,
being the senior mem^ber of tlhe firm of Latta and Latta of
Dyersburg, of which his son Franklin W. Lat*ais a partlier
He was married Ocrtober 1, 1896, to Eveleen Pardoe ajid has
the following child'ren: FrankWn Wiallace LalWa, who sei-ved
'in thp W^rld War in Aviation, married to Ruth Fum'banks^
November 18, 1920, and' has one child, S. Granger Latta jr.
born Septeimber 4, 1921. M-ary Latta, iborn May 29, 1899^
married on January 19, 1919, »to Homer Murphy Riohards
and! has one child; Homer Lattta Richards born February 15,
1920. Kaite Latta, born August 9, 1901. Gordon Granger
LaWla, bora September 30, 1903. Eveleen Ijatta, born Jame
15, 1905.
Helen Mar Guthrie, daughter of Minerva Wear and
Jghn Guthrie, married Dr. John Hooker, a brother to
Lavinia Wear's husband, in Mount Vernon, Missooiri. They
died about 1870, leaving no children.
Digitized by
Google
Digitized by
Google
WILLIAMS
The V/illiams Family of North Carolina and Tennessee
One of the old and disfcingaiish^ faimilies of North Caro-
lina and Tenn^essee is the Williams. The progenitor* of the
faimily was Nathaniel Williaims, wlio was 'a naliive of Han-
over County, Virginia. He had four sons and one daughter,
namely :
I. Robert Willi'ams.
II. Betsy or Elizabeth Williams.
III. John Williaims.
IV. Nathaniel Williams, Scond.
V. Joseph Williams.
I. ROBERT WILLIAMS
Robert Williams, th(» e^ldest son of Nathanid Williams,
iuoved fiMJim Pitilsylvania (iouiity, Virginia, Uoberl Williaaih
was A'djuitant General of the State of North Carolina and
collected the only copy of the Acts of the Assembly. He
married Sarah Lanier. They h^ad seven chilkJren and pos-
sibly one more. The seven were: (1) Nathaniel Williams
(who was Judge of the Superior Gour't of Tennessee) ; (2)
Polly Willi'ams (who married Mallllhew Cay, member of
Congress 1797-1813) ; (3) Lucy Williams (who married
Robert Gall); (4) Patsy Williams (who married John
Henry; (5) Sarah Williams (who married James Chalmers
and lived in Hialifax, Virginia, and. was grandj>air(*nt
of General James R. Chalmers, member of Congress from
Mississippi); (6) Elizabe'lh Williams (who mlarried John
Kerr, member of Congress, and had thwe children, namely:
John Kerr, Second, who x^'as also a member of Congress;
Mary (i. Kerr, who marriod her cousin,, Nicholas Lanier
371
Digitized by VjOOQIC
NOTABLE SOUTHERN FAMILIES
Williams, and Martha Kerr, who married Dr. FVank Martin;
and (second) Fmnces Williams (w^ho married Thomas D.
Oonfally of Tennessee. They had three childl'eai, namely : H^w.
Jofhn KedT Gonnally, who married Alice G. Thomas, daugh-
ier of James Thomas o«f Richmond ; Marj^ E. Goiially, who
married James Turner Morehea/d, son of Governor J. M.
Moreftiead of North Carolina; and) Fraii«*'.»s Gonally, who
married G. W. Guerrant of Rockingihajm, North Oarolina).
The o#heir diaiuighter of Robert Walliams and his wife, Sarah
Lanier Williams, who w^as *.ihe eighth child, is given by
Joihn H. Wlhee'ler as also a "Frances," but it is improbable
that 'two daughters would have reached 'mallnrily continu-
ally called) by the same name. . She is given, however, as
"Frances, the wife of General Bai»cilia Graves'*.
II. BETSY OR ELIZABETH WILLIAMS
Betsy or Elizabeth Williaons, dsaughter of Naithaniel
Willdams, married Hicks.
III. JOHN WILLIAMS
John Williams, son 'of Nat/h'aiiiel Williams, Fir^fc, born
in Hanover County, Virgnia, in 1745; died in 1799. He was
a Golone/l of the Revolution and commanded *he Minute
Me-n from Hillsboro District, North Carolina. In April 1770,
ih-e was a m.ember of the court wbidh met alt Hillsboro. He
was one of the first Judges under the Stiate Constitution in
North Carolina, in 1777. He was a member distinguished
for his sound judgment and common sense. He died in
October. 1799.
He married Elizabeth- Williamson and settled in North
Carolina, HlUsboro Dis*rict. They hiad (two chidren,
namely : Christopher H. Williams (who was a member of
(Congress from Tennessee 1837-1853, and Elizabeth Williams
(who married General Azariah Graves. Their diaughter.
Henrietta Graves, married Judge Thomas Settle, Firs»), ana
had two diildlren, Thomas Settle, Second, and Fan.nie Settle,
who married Colonel John W. Covington and had a daugh-
ter, Nettie Coviogton, who married P. D. Walsh of Rock-
ingh^wn. North Carolinla) .
Senator John Sharp Williams of Mississippi comes of
(this line. He is a son of Colonel Christopher Harris Wil-
liams and his wife Annie Looiise Sh^rp WiHiams. John
Sharp Williams was bom in Memphis. He married Elizar
beth Dial Webb.
372
Digitized by VjOOQIC
WILLIAMS
IV. NATHANIEL WILLIAMS, SEXX)ND
Nalthaniel Williams, Second', son of Nathajiiel Williams,
First married and had ftihree children, namely r
Robert Williams (who was appointed Gtovemor of Mis-
sissippi by President Thomas Jeffereon) ; Nalttianiel Wil-
liams, Third; and Fvlizabeth Williams (who married
Balctvvin of Louisiana).
V. JOSEPH WILLIAMS
Joseph Williaims, son of Nathaniel Williams, iihe First
was bom in Hanover Goun'ty, Virginia, and' moved to North
Carolina when he W6is eighteen years old. ' He settled near
Shallow Ford, in w^hat was afterwards Suirey County, be-
fore ithe Revolu'tion. He was one of the delegates from
Surrey to hhe Convention at Hillsboro in 1775, the other
delegates being Robert Lanier, William HaM, Mar!in Arm-
strong, and Joseph Winston.
In 1776 he was appointed Lieutenant Cotonel of the
Surrey County Militia. Martin Armstrong was Colonel.
Joseph Williams was ^distinguished for his enterprise, ac-
tivity and patriotism. He -was Cferk of the court of Surrey
for many yeairs and contin»ued in thM position untl he
died, at a ripe oM age, in 1828. He married' Rebcca Lanier
of Granville County, North Carolina. |
Their children were:
(1) Robert Williams; married Rebecca Smith.
(2) Joseph Williams; married Susan Tayloa\
(3) John \A'Hliams; married Melinda White.
(4) William Williams; married Sarah King.
(5) Lewis Williams; died' unmarried.
(6) Thomas L. Williams; married Polly McClung.
(7) Rebecca Williams; married John H. Wimbish.
(8) . Alexander Williams; marrod' Catherine Dixon.
(9) Fannie Williams; married John P. Erwin.
(10) Nicholas Lanier Williams; marred Mary G. King.
Of the foregoing:
(1) General Robert Williams, son of Joseph Williams
and Rebecca Lartier Williams, was born in Cas^^^ell County,
and was p»rominent in the public life of North Carolina. He
was a member of Congress from North Carolna 1797-1803,
and in 1805 was appoin'ted Commissioner of Land Titles in
Mississippi by President Jefferson. He served for fow
373
Digitized by VjOOQIC
NOTABLE SOUTHERN FAMILIES
years. He married Rebecca Smith of Gmnville, North Caro-
lina, and died in Louisiana.
(2) Joseph Williams, Seoootfi, so« af Joseph Williams
and Rebecca Lanier Williams, was CSerk of Surrey Court.
He ^married' Susan Taylor. They had three c^hiWrwi,
n«)me'ly: Susan Williams (w-ho married James R. Dotage
midl had: Richard Irwin Dodg^, U. S. A., whose son was
Predlerick P. Dodge; Annie Dodge, who married Ghakners
U Glenn, and had James L. Gienn, Robert B. Glenn, and
Edward T. B. Glenn; end Mary H. Dodge) ; Rebecca Wil-
liams (w<ho married Frank Dead^erick) ; and Midbhipman
John T. Wlliams.
(3) John Williams, the third son of Joseph Williams
and Re'beooa Lanier Williams, nKoved to Knoxville, Ten-
nessee. Here he began to practice law. During the Semi-
mole War he raised a troop of volunteers, after which he
was m'aide Colonel of 'the 39th Infantry, United States Army.
In the Baltltle of the Horsesh^oe the 39th, under his command',
is said to have borne the brunt of the battle. From- 1815 to
1823 he was Senator from Tennessee. In 1825 he was ap-
pointed, by Presid»ent Adams, Envoy 1o the Central Amer-
ican States. He died in Knoxville, August 7, 1837. He mar-
ried Malinda- White, daughter of General Jaimes White, and
sis'tefr to Hugh Lawson White. He had three children,
namely: Joseph Ijajiier Williams (member of Congress
from 1839 to 1843) ; Margaret Williams (who onarried
OMef Justice Pearson of North Carolinia as his first wife:
from this Tine comes Richard Pearson Holbfton of
Green^oro, Alabama) ; and Colonel John Williams, Second,
(who married RhocJa Morgan and had three children,
namely: John Williams, Third; Thomas Lanier Williams
and Lizzie Williaims. Of these : John Williams, Third, mar-
ried Lizzie Nelson, daughter of Judge Thomas A. R. Nelson,
of Knoxville, Tennessee, and' had a daughter Mary Williams,
who married Merriweather and lives in Was^hinglon;
Thomas Ijanier Williamis married Isa'beWa Goffin (see Sevier
Faimily in Notable SouWiem Families, Volume I), and had
Ella \MMiams who married William • Gannaway
Brownlow (see Brownlow Family in NotaJble
Southern Families, Vol. I, and has no children;
and Oornelius CofTin Williams, who marrid Edwina Dakin,
amd lives in St. Louis and has two children. Rose Isabella
WilHams and TViolmas Lanier Williams, Seoon'dl; Lizzie
Williams, married' Joseph W. Sneed of Knoxville, Tennes-
see, and had John Seed', Joseph Sneed, Lida Sneed', Eliza-
374
Digitized by VjOOQIC
WILLIAMS
beth Sneed, Lindia Sneed, w^ho married Alex Brandeau, and
William Sneed, who nrnrried Elizbelii Logan and had
Joseph Logan Sneed, ElizabeKlh Sne< d and Rebecoa Sneed.
(4) William Williams, the foairlh son of Joseph Wil-
liams and Rebecca Lanier Williams, was born about 1782,
He grad>iia»t-ed! froon ithe University of North (^.rolina in 1808
He was elected to Congress in 1815, and continued' to be a
menib(»r of Oon'gress during his life. He died! while in Wash-
ington, February 25, 1842. He was unmarried.
(6) Thomas Lanier Williams, son of Joseph Williams
and Rebecca Lanier Williams, was a twin brother of Lewis
Williams, and was bom about 1782. He moved to Ten-
nessee and was Chancellor of Teiniesse for many years. He
married Polly McClung, diawghKer of Charles McCSung and
Margaret White, daughteir of General JauKs White of Ten-
nessee. They had fooir children, namely: Rebecca Wil-
liams (who is said to have marrid a son otf Governor Isaac
Shelby of Kentucky) ; Malinda Williams (who married
Ohief Justice Napton of Missouri") ; Margaret Williams
(who married John G. Miller, me^mlxT of Congress from
Missouri, and married as her second husband, H. W.
Douglass of Na^ihville) ; and ^ Williams (who married
Dr. J. Walker Percy of Hainlsville, Alabama).
(Rebecca Williiams , seventh child! and first daiughter
of Joseph Williajms and Rebecca Lanier Williams, married
Oolonel John H.. Wimhi^h of Halifax, Virginia. They had
one cJhild, Rebecca, who married first Dr. Pleasanrt Hender-
son, and second Roger Q. Mills, nwanber of Congress from
Texas.
(8) Alexander Williams, who lived at Gn^eneville, Ten-
nessee, seventh son of Joseph Williams and! Rebtn^ca Lanier
WiWiams, was a physician. He married Catherine Dixon,
only daughter of Colonel William Dixon.
(9) Fannie Williams, nin*h child of Joseph Williams
anfd/ Itebecca Williams, married Colonel John P. Erw^in of
Nashville.
(10) Nicholas Lanier Williams, tenth child and eighth
son of Joseph Williams and Rebecca Lander Williams, was
bom abou<t 1800. He married Maiy G. Kerr and had three
children, namely: Bettlie Williams (who niairried John A.
Lillington; Joseph Williams (who married M. Lou Glenn,
daughter of Tyre Glenn of Yadkin County, North 'Carolina,
and had tu^ children, Glenn Williams and Mary Wil-
liams) ; and Lewis Williams, who married Sarah A. Smith,
daiighter of Colonel William C. Smi:h of Anson Coamty,
375
Digitized by
Google
NOTABLE SOUTHERN FAMILIES
Norbh Cairolina, and 'had five chiJdren: Mary 0. Williams,
Eliza Helms Williams, William Smith Williams, Lena Pearl
Williams ^nd Lanier Williams.
From Tennessee Repo'rts, Volu'me III, p€ige 14.
CARTHAGE, 1816
Nathaniel Williams, ofTicer in Gol-onial Line, March 7,
f786, grant for services, in Smith County Tennessee, on
Gumberlanid River. Nathaniel died and left sons, Nathaniel
and William \\'illiams. The lahter died unmaiT-ied, leaving
Nathaniel Williams so'le heir,. He scld the land warmnt in
1785 ito Grafton Ireland.
No^te: Another Williams of Revolutionary Service was
Goloiiel James WiWiaan, bum in Granville Goimty, Niorhh
Garfjlina, 1737; died 1780 He comimiebncHed a regiment at
•King's Moun'hain and in c<l:her battles. At King's Moiinitain
he w as mortaly woimded. He married Maiy Wallace.
Descend'ants of Hlhis Colonel Williams are M'iss Qaroline Wil-
liams Sproul of Abbeville, Soulth Oarolina, and Miss Mary
Miles Jordan of Greenwood, Sou'th Oarolina, and the
Williams family of Ala'bama.
THE WILLOUGHBY WILLIAMS LINE
Goloneil Wiloughby Williattns of North Carolina was
ano^ther distinguished officer of the Revolution. He served
•uS ''Gommisary of Issues". He fo^ugM in many battles and
was l>adly wounded ait the Battle of Gowpens. Aimther au-
Ihority says thall he was killed in the Battle of Gowpens.
He married Nianoy Glasgow (after his death she married
Governor Joseph McMinn of Tennessee, bull by him had- no
children). Golonel Willoughby Williams left a son, Wil-
laughby Williaons, Second, who married Nancy Nioholls.
•Kiey had a son, Robert Nioholls Williams. He married
Mary Malilda Mor^gan, who is now living in Golumbia,
Tennessee. Their children were : Genevieve Williams (who
married James Hillary Mulligan) ; Nancy Lee Williams
(who married William Porter Morgan, and is now living
in Coluimbia, Tennessee) ; Morgan Williaims (of Greene-
▼illp, Florida) ; and Willoughby Williams, Third (Who died*
Nov.'^mbrr 23, 1919, in Nashville, Tennessee, leaving two
sons).
Judge Joseph V. Williams of Qha)lianooga, is of a family
w^hic'h moved to the stale of Tennessee more than a century
ago from Maryland. James Williams (great-grandfather
370
Digitized by
Google
WILLIAMS
of Joseph V. ^^'illia)ms), moved to Elizabetbton, Tennessee,
early in the year 1805; -from Maryland wlie«^ he had) seen
revolutionary service. Sometime before 1814, he died in
Elizabethton. In thart year his son, Jesse Williams, moved
to Overton (bounty, Tennessee, and after living there one
year moved again, this time to White County, where he
lived until his death. He married Elizabeth Talte of a
well known Tennessee family, and their son, James Tate
Williams married Matilda Wallace of an old revolutionary
family. Their children were: Joseph V. Williams, and
May Williams. Judge Joseph V. Williams moved to Chat-
tanooga to ireside and married Annie Scholze. Their chil-
dren are: Joseph V. Williams, junior, Robert Williams,
Margaret Williams and Annie Gertrude Williams. May
Williaims, diaughter of James Talfce Williams and Matilda
Wallace Williams, married J. T. Quarles, of Cookeville,
Tennessee.
Digitized by
Google
Digitized by
Google
VOLUMH III
of
NOTABLE SOUTHERN FAMILIES
Will contain ttventy-one ar'Acles concerning the
GARY
CUNNINGHAM
KING
TAYLOR
ROGERS
ROBERTSON
• McGLUNG
WHITE
and other well-known names.
o — :—
Reservation for this volume should be made promptly.
o
LOOKOUT PUBLISHING COMPANY
Chattanooga. Tenn.
Digitized by
Google
Digitized by
Google
A Few Copies of
Notable Southern Families
Volume I, Containing Histories of
Armstrong Lyle
Banning McAdoo
Bloimt McGhee
n , McMillan
Brownlow Phinizy
Calhoon Polk
Deaderick Sevier
Gaines l^elds
Howard Stone
Key Tumley
Luttrdl VanDyke
Are on sale at $3.00 per copy
ADDRESS
Lookout Publishing Company
CHATTANOOGA, TENN,
Digitized by
Google
Digitized by
Google
Digitized by
Google
Digitized by
Google
Digitized by
Google
Digitized by
Google
This book sbotdd be returned to
the Library on or before the laat date
stamped below*
A fine of five cents a day is incurred
by retaining it beyond the specified
time* ^,
Mease return promptTj^.
#«^;[^
Digitized by
Google
WidQn«r Ithmt
.Jllllltl,,.
098 881 485
Digitized by
Google
V.
Live Music Archive
Librivox Free Audio
Metropolitan Museum
Cleveland Museum of Art
Internet Arcade
Console Living Room
Books to Borrow
Open Library
TV News
Understanding 9/11